Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-29
DETAILING INSTRUCTORS.
The Regulations in Regard to Army
Officers at Schools.
The Appointment of Officers to Col
States-C0urses of Instruction.


of regulations for the enforcement Of the
laws relating to the detail Of officers of
the army at established colleges, universi-
ties, etc.
Applications for details of officers should
be addressed to the Secretary of War, and
should be accompanied by the last printed
catalogue and a certificate to the num-
ber of male students the institution has, the
capacity in buildings, apparatus, and in
structors to educate at one and the same
time; the number of such students in actual
attendance at the time of application, or,
IL the application be made during vacation,
the number actually in attendance during
the session Immediately preceding it; and
the number over fifteen years Of age. The
certificate should also show the grade Of
the institution, the degrees it confers and
whether or not 1t is a land grant school
officers OF the army desiring to be de-
tailed at colleges. universities. ETC., may
make application for such detail to the ad-
jutant general. through the usual military
channels.
All details from the retired list will, un-
der the provisions of the act of November
3, 1898. be included in the limited number
Of details authorized by that act.
Where state has more than one school
endowed by the national land grant, under
the act approved July =, 1862 the school
which is reported by the governor of the
state as most nearly meeting the require
ments OF existing law will be held to have
the first claim TO the officer allotted to the
state for detail at a land grant college.
Assigned by Groups.
The apportionment Of officers to colleges.
ETC.. is based on the population Of states
arranged in groups. Under this apportion-
ment eleven officers are assigned to the
New England states. ten to New Jersey
and New York. eight to Pennsylvania and
Delaware, seven to Maryland, District of
Colum bia. Virginia and West Virginia, five
to the two Carolinas, three to Georgia, four
to Alabama and Florida, two each to Mis-
sisSippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Nebraska, 3
each to Tennessee, Kentucky. Indiana and
Iowa. five each to Ohio and Illinois, six to
Michigan and Wisconsin, four to Missouri
five to Minnesota and the two Dakotas,
six to Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, five
70 Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado,
Utah, New Mexico and Arizona and six to
Washington. Oregon, California and Neva-
da. making ITO In all, the full limit of the
law.
Ordnance Issues.
AS the appropriations for the supply of
ordnance and ordnance stores to the army
are very limited. and the language of
the law restricts the issues that can be
made to colleges to such as "can be spared
for that purpose" issues of ordnance and
ordnance stores to colleges will be limited
to arms and the equipments and imple-
ments necessary to enable them to be used
by the students Tor the purposes of drill,
parade and similar exercises. but not for
neld and encampment purposes.
The colleges to which issues of ordn ance
and ordnance stores are made, under bonds
given as required by law, will be required
to keep said property in like good and
servfceable condition as when issued by
the government, and for this purpose the
spare parts, implements and appendages
necessary for this purpose will be sold to
them at cost price on application to the
chief Of ordnance.
Duties of the Detail.
The professor of military science and
tactics shall reside at or near the institu-
tion to which assigned, and when in the
performance of his military duties shall
appear in proper uniform. He shall, in his
relations to the institution, observe the
general usages and regulations therein es-
tablished affecting the duties and obliga-
tions Of other members Of the faculty For
the benefit of the officer and the military
service he may perform other duties at The
college in addition to those pertaining to
military science and tactics, and may re-
ceive such compensation therefor as may
be agreed upon.
The course of instruction shall be both
practical and theoretical
The practical course in infantry shall
embrace small-arm target practice and. as
FAR as possible. all the movements pre-
scribed by the drill regulations of the
United States army applicable to a bat
talon. Instructions in artillery shall EN-
brace. as far as practicable such portions .
OF the United States drill regulations as
pertain to the forma ton of detachments
manual Of the piece, mechanical maneu-
vers, aiming drill. saber exercises and tar
get practice. Instruction should also in
clude the duty of sentinels and, where
practicable, castrametation
Theoretical instruction shall include, as
far as practicable, a systematic and pro-
gressive course in the following subjects:
The drill regulations of the United States
army, the preparation of the usual reports
ana returns pertaining to company, the
organization and administration of the
United States army and the elementary
principles governing the art of war