538 BOARD OF AGEICULTURE. 



THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL COURSE 



OF instructio:n^. 



THEORY. 



Fall term, Freshman year. One hour per week for the 

 term. Recitations in infantry tactics (Upton's). School of 

 the Soldier. School of the Company. Skirmish drill. 



Fall term, Sophomore year. One hour per week for the 

 term. Recitations in U. S. Artillery tactics. School of the 

 Soldier (dismounted), sabre exercise, manual of the piece 

 and mechanical manoeuvres, bayonet exercise (infantry tac- 

 tics). Ammunition, equipment of carriages. Modified ser- 

 vice of 8-inch mortars. 



Fall term, Junior year. Recitations in infantry tactics 

 (Upton's). One hour per week for the term. School of the 

 battalion. Ceremonies. Company and field service. 



MILITARY SCIENCE. 



This instruction is given to seniors, extending through the 

 entire college year, two hours per week. 



It will include, in the form of lectures and recitations from 

 selected text-books, the following subjects : Ordnance and 

 gunnery ; constitutional and military law and history ; cam- 

 paigns and battles; systems of warfare, present and past; 

 an elementary course in strategy and engineering. It will 

 be modified by such additions and changes as shall seem de- 

 sirable. Essays are required from each senior on military 

 subjects, when they have become sufficiently instructed to 

 prepare them advantageously. These papers will be read in 

 the recitation room for general note and criticism, or before 

 the entire college. One set, all upon the same subject, are 



