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to serve. The others receive stations, according to their capacity, 
in the following order: engineers, artillerists, infantry, marines.' 
Should even these corps have the necessary number of officers, 
these young men as supernumeraries, receive full pay. At the 
examinations also, the cadets advance from one class to another. 
The names of the five best in each class are made known in the 
newspapers, and also printed in the army list, which appears every 
year. This is certainly an encouraging arrangement, and worthy 
of imitation. 
The discipline of the cadets is very rigid; they leave the school 
only as officers, on which account their noviciate in the corps of 
cadets serves as a practical school of passive obedience. The 
punishments consist of arrest, which, however, does not inter¬ 
rupt the course of instruction; but when a case occurs that a cadet 
is to be punished a second time for the same fault, he is dismissed. 
The same takes place when after two public examinations he has 
not learned enough to advance into a higher class. 
The day is thus divided in this school:—• 
From day-break till sunrise. —Reveille at day-break—roll- 
call after reveille—cleaning of rooms, arms and dress—half an 
hour after roll-call, inspection of the rooms. 
From sunrise till seven o’clock. —First class, military engi¬ 
neering.—Second, natural and experimental philosophy.—-Third 
and fourth, mathematics. 
From seven till eight o’clock. —Breakfast at seven o’clock.— 
Parade at half past seven.—Class parade at eight o’clock. 
From eight till eleven o’clock. —First class, recitations and 
engineer and military drawing.—Second, natural and experi¬ 
mental philosophy.—Third and fourth, mathematical recitations. 
From eleven till twelve o’clock.— First class, lectures on en¬ 
gineer and military sciences.—Second, lectures on natural and 
experimental philosophy?—Third and fourth, mathematical stu¬ 
dies. 
From tivelve till one o’clock. —First class, Monday, Wed¬ 
nesday, and Friday, lectures on chemistry applied to mechanics 
and the arts, or mineralogy and geology—Tuesday, Thursday, 
and Saturday, studies on the same subjects.—Second, Tues¬ 
day, Thursday, and Saturday, lectures on chemistry—Mon¬ 
day, Wednesday, and Friday, studies on the same subject.*— 
Third, French recitations.—Fourth, French studies and reci¬ 
tations. 
From one till two o’clock. —Dinner very plain and frugal at 
one o’clock—recreation after dinner till tw r o o’clock. 
From two till four o’clock. —First class, studies and recita¬ 
tions in geography, history, belles lettres and national laws.— 
