DEPARTMENT OF TACTICS

54. New cadets.--New cadets report for duty at the Military Academy on the first week day in July. They are quartered separately from the Corps and are given intensive training in infantry recruit instruction, military courtesy, guard duty, and infantry weapons and a course of corrective and upbuilding physical training.

After approximately one month of the above training, the new cadets join the Corps for guard and ceremonies, but remain in their separate quarters. The remainder of the first summer is devoted to basic training in the technique of infantry, guard duty, methods of study, swimming, dancing, hygiene, and customs of the service.

At the end of the first summer the fourth class (new cadets) is fully incorporated into the Corps. The military training during the remainder of the year carries on basic instruction in infantry and field artillery, map reading, musketry, and customs of the service.

Third class.-The military training in the third-class year continues the basic instruction including infantry drill, marksmanship, rifle and pistol, riding, dancing, and customs of the service. Specialist instruction is given in infantry weapons, field artillery, coast artillery, and signal communication.

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Second class.-The second class is absent during the summer. The remainder of the year is spent in preparing the class for their work the next summer. consists in technique of fire of coast artillery and field artillery, coast artillery and field-artillery matériel, field artillery in draft, riding, and minor tactics including combat principles of the smaller units of infantry, cavalry, communication units, field artillery and coast artillery.

First class. The first-class year is devoted primarily to developing qualities of command and leadership, instruction in minor tactics dealing with units of the various arms individually and in combination, motor transportation, administration, hippology and riding, and general information of value to young officers. All classes. Instruction in swimming and dancing begins in the fourth-class year and continues for each cadet until he is declared proficient. Practical instruction in fencing, gymnastic exercises, boxing, wrestling, swimming, and all forms of athletics is given to all classes.

Instruction in equitation is given to the first, second, and third classes.

Special emphasis is given marksmanship, and each cadet is required to fire qualification courses with the rifle and pistol. The purpose of this work is twofold: (1) To develop good shots, and (2) to give instruction in methods of training. Textbooks

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND MILITARY ENGINEERING

55. Civil engineering.-This course is required of all cadets of the first class It comprises 75 periods, beginning September 1, alternating daily with fortification and Army engineering.

The instruction is theoretical, being illustrated by lectures and engineering models. It includes the mechanics of engineering and the application of the principles of engineering to engineering structures, as dams, walls, roads, railways, bridges, water supply, etc.

Textbook: Civil Engineering, by Mitchell.

A special course is given in 5 periods of the term of those cadets who have shown a marked proficiency in civil engineering.

Mechanical engineering. This course is required of all cadets of the first class. It comprises 37 periods, beginning February 12, alternating daily with military

history. It includes the elements of mechanism, sources and utilization of mechanical power, theory of steam engines, and methods of power transmission. The instruction is illustrated by lectures and mechanical engineering models, and by visits to the power plants of the post.

Textbook: Mechanical Engineering, by Mitchell.

Fortifications.-This course is required of all cadets of the first class. It comprises 20 periods, beginning September 1, alternating daily with civil engineering. Sixteen periods of instruction are devoted to lectures and to the study of the theory of fortifications; and the remainder of the course is devoted to practical problems in fortification. The theory includes the evolution of fortification and the principles of laying out and methods of construction of defenses; the problems are devoted principally to fortification by units not larger than a company; the lectures cover the history of the important field and permanent fortifications in past wars and the developments from one type to another, with the lessons learned from their use in war.

Textbook: Fortification, by Mitchell.

Army engineering.-This course is required of all cadets of the first class. It comprises 24 periods, beginning October 10, alternating daily with civil engineering. The instruction is theoretical and is illustrated with models of military engineering constructions.

The instruction is devoted to the application of the principles and practice of civil and mechanical engineering to military conditions. It comprises military mapping, military roads and railways, construction of military shelters, military ports and terminals, siege works, camouflage, demolitions, military bridges, and the application of gas engines to the needs of the military service in different branches of the United States Army.

Textbook: Army Engineering, by Mitchell.

Military art and history. This course is required of all cadets of the first class. It comprises 69 periods during the fall and spring terms, alternating daily with civil and mechanical engineering.

The instruction is theoretical and comprises the organization of armies, employment of the different arms in combination, logistics, and strategy. Study is made of selected periods of the world's military history showing lessons applicable to present conditions. Lectures are given covering certain military events requiring special emphasis.

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

SECOND CLASS

56. The course in natural and experimental philosophy extends throughout the second-class year. Precision of measurements, computations, and graphical methods, and a part of analytical mechanics for engineers are taught in the order named during the first term. Analytical mechanics, hydraulics and hydraulic machinery, thermodynamics and prime movers, and aerodynamics are taught in the order mentioned during the second term of the year. Approximately 20 laboratory experiments are performed during the year.

In all there are 225 recitation periods, each of 1 hour and 20 minutes duration, 6 attendances per week. For laboratory work each period is of 1 hour and 55 minutes duration.

The entire course, insofar as the subjects undertaken are concerned, in addition to its educational and training value, is intended as a thorough preparation for engineering and other technical subjects taught during the first-class year. A brief statement of the courses given and the textbooks used follows: The slide rule.-At the beginning of academic work on September 1, and for about two weeks thereafter, a portion of each period of instruction is devoted to the use of the slide rule, and thereafter proper use of the slide rule for computations in the department is obligatory.

Precision of measurements, computations, and graphical methods.-Approximately 10 periods are devoted to this subject, which is presented in Notes on Precision of Measurements, Computations, and Graphical Methods, prepared in the department and based on the text, Precision of Measurements and Graphical Methods, Goodwin, latest edition. In addition to the theoretical instruction, four laboratory exercises are presented in this subject.

Analytical mechanics for engineers.-The text used for this subject is Analytical Mechanics for Engineers, Seely and Ensign, second edition. Upon the completion of precision of measurements, computations, and graphical methods, this subject is taken up and pursued until the end of the first term, December 23, approximately 85 attendances.