River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-06-05
MILITARY TRAINING.


Army Omcers Assigned to DUTY at Col
leges by Congress.
A list OF the officers of the army as
signed to the military instruction OF
universities and colleges. under section
1925 of the Revised Statutes. as amend
ed by the last Congress, shows that
forty-eight Lieutenants are detailed for
this duty. and that their terms expire
at various periods during the next
three years The number allowed by
statute is fifty, so that the details are
tolerably well filed, and in addition
ten are allowed from the navy.
The law declares that where STATE
has more than one school endowed by
the national land grars of 1862. the
one which the Governor declares to De
the most in accord with the require
ments of the statute shall have the Of
ficer who may be allotted to that State.
The institutions which actually have
the army details include the State Unit
versities OF Vermont West Virginia,
louisiana Tennessee. Ohio, Illinois,
Wisconsin. Iowa, Missouri Minnesota,
Nebraska, Nevada and California; the
Colleges Of Maine. Pennsylvania and
Delaware; the Agricultural Colleges
of Massachusetts. Maryland, North
Georgia. East Florida, Michigan, Kan
sas, and Colorado; the Agricultural
and Mechanical Colleges of Virginia,
Kentucky. Alabama, Mississippi and
Texas; and the Arkansas Industrial
University. Thus it will be seen that
these instructors are widely distributed
through the Union.
We also find officers stationed at some
well known institutions. like Cornell
University. Union College. Rutger Col
lege, and the Sheffield Scientific School
of Yale University. Then Norwich.
De Pauw. Purdue. Wooster UNIVERSE
ties, the Normal University at Ada. and
the university of the South have
army instructors, as have also
Knox and Allegheny Colleges. Cornell
College of Iowa, and two St. John Col
leges. one in New York and the other
in Maryland. Army officers are also
assigned to the Pennsylvania, South
Carolina and Michigan military acade-
mics. to the Cathedral School at Car
den City, end to the Bingham school OF
North Carolina.
1t must be conceded that South and
North, West and East take advantage
OF the system as amended by the Fiji
tenth Congress. and no officer is de-
tailed except upon application from the
authorities OF the institution. This APP
plication gives the number of male stu
dents which the institution is educat-
| ing, or Ia able 10 educate Army Off
GERS on their part may apply for this
duty, which is much coveted. At pres
ent the details show that twenty-seven
infantry, twelve cavalry and nine ar.
tllery Lieutenants are detailed, which
is tolerably equal division among the
three arms. The Second Artillery gets
rather the best of it, with four officers
detailed, while the Fourth has three.
the Third and First one each, and the
Fifth none. In the cavalry, the Sew
enth has three college details; the First
Sixth and Tenth. two each; the Second.
Third and Fifth, one each. and the 9TH
err regiments mona. In the infantry
the Second has four; the Thirteenth
and Eighteenth three each; the Sixth,
Fifteenth and Twenty-fourth two each,
and, necessarily. many others have none.
Besides the sixty army and navy Off
GERS allowed under section l, 226 of the
Revised Statutes. under details are pos
ible under section 1850. On the
Whole, considering the large number
Of stations, occupied by our forty regi-
ments of the line. and the many calls
for details from companies, for various
services. the supply of officers for pop
ular military instruction is liberal.
There is hardly any way OF exactly de-
termining how much good is done by
this sort of work, or rather there
seems to have been no thorough or
comprehensive study of its actual re-
suits; but the last Congress evidently
considered the system worthy OF being
continued and even enlarged. N. I. Sun.