The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-06-05
MILITARY TRAINING,

MILITARY TRAINING.
Airy oaaesrs Asaignsd to DUTY 4 a..
lo9es BY Congress.
q list Of the officers OF the army a..
signed TO the military instruction Q,
universities and colleges. under section
1925 Of the Revised Statutes. as amend.
cd By the last Congress, shows that
forty-eight Lientenants are detailed for
this duty. and that their terms expire
at various periods during the next
three yearA The number allowed by
statute 10 fifty, 50 that the details ara
tolerably we'll filed, and in addition
ten are allowed from the navy.
Tho law declares that where q State
has moro than one school endowed bv
tho national land grant OF 1862. the
one which the Governor declares to be
the most in accord with the REQUIRE.
ments Of the statute shall have the Of.
ftcer who may be allotted to that State.
Tho institutions which actually have
the army details include the State Uni
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
we'll 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 O her
in Maryland. Army officers are also
assigned to the Pennsylvania, South
Carolina and Michigan military acade.
mics, to the Cathedral School at Gar
den City, and 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
teenth Congress-, and no officer is de-
tailed except upon application from the
authorities of the institution. This ap-
plication gives the number of male stu
dents which the institution is educa:-
ing, or is able to educate. Army off,
cers 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.
llery 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
er regiments none. 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 1926 of the
Revised Statutes, under details are pos
sible under section 1860 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 m Y. Sun.
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