New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-27
If You Yearn for Epaule and Sword Nows Your Chance
for the Army Will Give Commissions to $50
Men, Preferably University Military
School Graduates.

, culus-djfIercntial and integral. In all cases
a showing I'm mathematics will count you
much moro than proficiency In the other
subjects. If you do not make a genera
average of 20 YOU are down and out AT
your first hazard
This ordeal of the preliminary examina-
ton YOU will entirely escape II you can
prove yourself a graduate OF either a rec
ognized" college or university or OF col
lege or school that is essentially military
and 20 which an officer OF the regular army
/ is detailed as a professor OF military SCI
ence and tactics.
But whatever your educational advan-
tages have been. you must report on sep
tembcr . at the designated military post
there 10 be taken in hand by an army board
of medical and line officers for the final
examination that is TO decide your fate.
First will come a careful physical test
70 determine whether you are big and
strong enough to uphold the honor Of the
army and fight your nations battles. In
addition TO proving up TO all of the phys
ical standards required Of recruits enlistlng
in the ranks, you will have TO show that
your degree Of vision is good and that you
are not color blind for red, green or Violet.
In the vision test your eyes must show
degree less than 20-4o' the meaning OF
which any oculist or optician can readily
explain, thus perhaps saving you the
trouble and expense of taking the final test
Should you apply for commission In the
mounted service-the cavalry or Held ar
tillery-you will be put astride OF a nag
upon whose back you must trot and canter
around a ring. while supplementary
board" Of officers takes notes upon your
ability to weather the journey.
The physical test is your second pitfall,
and unless you escape 1t it were futile 10
pass on 10 the line officers who await 10
give YOU your final mental examination,
which. too. will vary according to whether
Won wish to enter the mobile army or the
coast artillery.
II service with the latter Is your aim the
examination will include elementary cleo
tricity, mechanics and chemistry, and in
addition either advanced mathematics, cleo
tricity or mechanics, as you may elect
also the Constitution OF the United States.
the organization Of the government and the
elements OF international law.
But &c you choose 20 become lieutenant
Of cavalry. field artillery or infantry your
examination will be entirely different. save
in the subjects of Constitution, government
and international law. You must qualify
! I'm general history elementary French, Ger
man or Spanish and such of the following
| advanced optional subjects" as you may
! choose: Calculus and analytical geometry
or "A thorough working knowledge Of any
! modern language" such as covered by
! four-year course at a university. or "a
I general knowledge of the English Ian
cuage or English literature which as
sumcs familiarity with the great authors
from Chaucer down through Stevenson.
Before being designated" for examination
| by the adjutant general you must inform
} him as TO which OF these optional subjects
YOU wish to be examined upon. All maxi
ing s. or over in the whole mental eXami-
nation will be graded I'm three lists
Every year certain Of the big military
schools and colleges, having professors
/ from the regular army designate each an
honor graduate" Such Of these as pass
The examination viii }. 90 the first COM
missions. and after thCm viii he favored
all graduates Of schools and colleges (as-
sentialy military and all young men hav-
ing had three years c"C1.t8blo service i'm
some state militia who have passed. The
remaining competitors who have made s.
on more will next be appointed, after which
II any licutenantccs still remain those
making between - and s. will he accom-