(c) The application must be accompanied by the last printed catalogue and a cer- 

 tificate showing the number of male students, the number of students in daily attend- 

 ance at the time of application, the numberof students over 15 years of age, the capacity 

 in buildings, apparatus, and the number of instructors. It must also show the grade 

 of the institution and whether or not it is a land-grant institution, and the degrees it 

 confers. 



(d) The authorities of the institution must assure the War Department that military 

 instruction shall be compulsory for all physically qualified students for a period of at 

 least two years and for not less than 84 hours per academic year. 



(e) The authorities must agree to uniform the students, at other than Government 

 expense, in neat, well-fitting uniforms of a pattern and style now in vogue at other 

 institutions of the same class and kind. (See act of Congress approved July 17, 1914.) 



(/) That the officer so detailed shall be a member of the faculty, with the same privi- 

 leges as those granted the heads of other departments of the institution. 



(g) That the officer so detailed will be supported by the authorities in maintaining 

 a liigh standard of military discipline. 



(h) That the course and method of training will be as prescribed by the War Depart- 

 ment and the details of same left in the hands of the officer so detailed. A svd table 

 classroom should be provided. 



2. If these requirements can be fulfilled by the institution, the War Department, 

 under section 1225, Revised Statutes, can grant the following: 



(a) Detail an officer from the active list of the Army to institutions classed as 

 MC and C, where the number of male students is 100 or over, and to class M and SM 

 institutions, where the number of such students ia 150. 



Class MC. — Colleges and universities (including land-grant institutions) where the 

 curriculum is sufficiently advanced to carry with it a degree, where the students are 

 habitually in uniform, where the average age of the students on graduation is not less 

 than 21 years, where military discipline is constantly maintained, and where one of 

 the leading objects is the development of the student by means of military drill and 

 by regulating his daily conduct according to the principles of military discipline. 



Class M. — Essentially military institutions where the curriculum is not sufficiently 

 advanced to carry with it a degree or where the average age of the students on gradua- 

 tion is less than 21 years. 



Class C. — Colleges and universities (including land-grant institutions) not essentially 

 military, where the cturiculum is sufficiently advanced to carry with it a degree and 

 where the average age of the students on graduation is not less than 21 years. 



Class SM. — Institutions not included in any of the classes mentioned above. 



(b) Detail an officer from the retired list of the Army whose pay and allowances wiU 

 be paid by the Government, provided the number of students over 15 years of age 

 exceeds 75. (Act of Nov. 3, 1893.) The total number of active and retii-ed offi- 

 cers who can be so detailed is by law limited to 100. 



(c) Detail a retired officer under the act approved April 21, 1904, to any institution 

 where the number of male students is less than 75, provided the institution will pay 

 the officer's commutation. The number of officers provided for this class of details is 

 unlimited. 



The annual commutation for a first lieutenant is about $550, for a captain about $710, 

 for a major about $882. 



(d) Within the limitations prescribed by "a," "b," and "c," a college may have 

 detailed thereat an active officer or a retired officer; a preparatory school other than a 

 public high school, an officer from the active list, a retired officer on active-pay status 

 or a retired officer under the provisions of the act approved April 21, 1904; but a high 

 school, a retired officer only under the act approved April 21, 1904. 



(e) Upon the issue of the order detailing the officer for duty as professor of military 

 science and tactics at the institution, arms and equipment can be issued in accord- 



