DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY ENGINEERING AND MILITARY ART. The courses in this department are taught in the first class year. That in military engineering comprises the art of fortification in all its branches, and a short course in civil engineering covering mechanics of engineering, engineering materials, roads, water supply, sewerage. The course in military art and history comprises a study of the organization of armies, elements of strategy, and the development of the military art as shown in military history. The department has a well-selected reference library on all the subjects in the course. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY. SECOND CLASS. The course in natural and experimental philosophy extends throughout the second class year. The slide rule, precision of measurements and graphical methods, elementary mechanics and properties of matter, wave motion, sound, and light, in the order named, are taught during the first term. Technical mechanics is taught during the greater part of the second term. This subject is followed by short courses in hydraulics, aerodynamics, and general astronomy, in the order mentioned. Numerous lectures by the head of the department and visiting scientists are given during the course. In addition to many demonstrations in the section rooms, approximately 30 formal laboratory experiments are performed. In all there are 225 recitation periods, each of one hour and fifteen minutes duration, six attendances per week. Each laboratory period is of two hours duration. The entire course in so far as the subjects undertaken are concerned, besides being of general educational value and training, is intended as a thorough preparation for engineering and technical subjects taught during the first class year. The following textbooks are used: General Physics.-Ferry, first edition. Precision of Measurements and Graphical Methods.-Goodwin, 1919 edition. Textbook on Hydraulics.-Russell. The Airplane.--Bedell. Introduction to Astronomy.-Moulton. DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS. THIRD AND FOURTH CLASSES. The course in mathematics begins with the fourth class year and continues through the third class year. In the fourth class year, algebra is completed in alternation; first with geometry, then with trigonometry. Plane analytical geometry is completed and solid analytical geometry begun. In the third class year solid analytical geometry is completed. The calculus and least squares finish the course. The course in algebra covers the entire subject as generally taught in colleges, but the student is expected to have already mastered elementary algebra to include the progressions and the solution of the quadratic equation. Elementary geometry includes the books that relate to the plane and those that relate to space, but the student is expected to have mastered the former. Trigonometry includes the complete solution of plane and spherical triangles. Analytical geometry includes the discussion of the general equation of the second degree in the plane and the particular forms of the equation of the second degree in space. The course in differential and integral calculus covers the ground of the usual college textbook, including briefly the subject of ordinary differential equations. The method of least squares, given to selected sections, includes the deduction of the facility curve, the formula for the error, and the distribution of error. This department embraces the subjects of chemistry, heat, and electricity. The course begins September 1 of the third academic year and extends throughout this year; exercises, recitations, laboratory work, or lectures take place on all week days. Commencing September 1, general chemistry and heat occupy the time until the close of the term in December, recitations or other exercises being had daily. During this term all members of the class whose progress, as shown by their recitations, warrants it, are given laboratory practice in chemistry. This practice begins with chemical manipulations and proceeds in the usual general order of elementary laboratory work. The laboratory exercises are two hours long. It is generally possible to give all parts of the class some laboratory experience; the amount of this work, however, varies with the aptitude of the student from a few hours to 25 or 30 hours. This term closes with an examination upon the essential parts of the entire course, which all cadets who have not shown a required proficiency in daily work must take. The course in heat is short, but it is a comprehensive elementary course intended to embrace what is most applicable to subsequent work at the academy and what is most useful in general education. In chemistry the course is a descriptive general one, based upon a concise statement of the more essential principles of chemistry, and includes that class of information deemed most important to nonspecialists, together with an accurate and logical treatment of many useful applications of chemistry. The course in chemistry is followed by a brief course in internal-combustion engines. Beginning January 2, the subject of electricity is taken daily. This term also closes with an examination, covering the essential parts of the subject studied during the term, which all cadets who have not shown a required proficiency in daily work must take. The course in electricity is a brief exposition of the leading electrical phenomena and their relations to each other. It includes a study of the general principles of the subject and of the typical machines, generators, motors, and transformers, together with the more important uses of electricity. The laboratory exercises give experience with a number of the machines and in the use of a great variety of apparatus employed in the numerous forms of electrical measurements. In this term the laboratory work is a part of the electrical course, and all cadets enter the laboratory. All laboratory work is performed under the immediate supervision of an instructor. Textbooks. Elementary Lessons in Heat.-Tillman. man. Motor Vehicles.-Fraser W. Jones. Practical Chemistry (Laboratory Elements of Electricity.-Robinson. Standard works on the respective subjects are always available for reference, both to cadets and instructors. DEPARTMENT OF DRAWING. THIRD CLASS. The course in drawing extends through the third class year, half the class attending each afternoon for a two-hour period. The general subjects covered by the course of instruction are as follows: 1. Use of drawing instruments. 2. Drafting-room methods. 3. Applications of descriptive geometry. 4. Mechanical drawing. 5. Architectural drawing. Instruction is mainly through a loose-leaf system of printed instruction sheets cov ering the various drawings and phases of the work. These are supplemented by short section-room lectures and blackboard illustrations when necessary. All work is under close supervision of instructors, and personal instruction is constantly given. Engineering Drawing.-French. Textbooks. Map Reading and Topographical Sketching.-Stuart. DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES. SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH CLASSES. In this department instruction is given in French and Spanish. The French course extends throughout the first and second years--attendance every other recitation day-206 lessons. The Spanish course extends throughout the third year-attendance every other recitation day-94 lessons. Both courses start with a study of pronunciation and grammar. Thereafter instruction is given in reading and composition. Conversation is taught throughout the courses. Descriptions of France, Spain, and Spanish-American countries, their people, customs, history, and literature, are given in lectures by native French and Spanish instructors. Textbooks. FRENCH. FOURTH CLASS. A French Grammar, by Morrison and Martin's The French Verb. THIRD CLASS. Martin's Essentials of French Pronuncia- | Le Roi des Montagnes, About. French. Cassell's French Dictionary. Military Technical Dictionary, Willcox, Spanish-New Spanish-English and English-Spanish Dictionary, Cuyas, Appleton. DEPARTMENT OF LAW. FIRST CLASS. The course in law, which is carried on alternate days throughout the entire firstclass year, embraces the following subjects: 1. Elements of Law. 2. Criminal Law. 3. Constitutional Law. 4. The Law of Evidence. 5. Military Law. 6. Moot Courts. The conference system of instruction is employed in the law department. In those subjects where text books are employed certain lessons are assigned and these lessons are explained at each conference and the cadets quizzed thereon. Short written examinations are held after every three conferences covering the subjects of the three preceding conferences. The object of the law course is to give the cadets in as simple form as can be given in the time allotted to the subject, the essential principles of American law and its administration, to the end that the cadets may properly perform their duties as officers of the army. The textbooks used are as follows: (a) Elementary Law.-W. D. Smith. (b) Criminal Law.-Clark. (c) Constitutional Law.-Mimeographed memoranda by the Department. (d) Evidence.-McKelvey. The department of law has a law library of about 3,081 volumes accessible to cadets. DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL MILITARY ENGINEERING, MILITARY SIGNALING, AND TELEGRAPHY. FOURTH, THIRD, Second, and First Classes. Fourth Class-During the months of March, April, and May, this class attends thirty-three recitations in surveying. The course includes instruction in the theory and use of chain and tape, compass, transit, and stadia, level and level rod; in the elements of orientation, triangulation, profile and differential leveling, computation and plotting, and the surveying methods applicable to map making. The slide rule is used in computations. Third Class-During September and October, this class receives fifty hours of instruction in field engineering, executing problems involving the use of surveying instruments, engineer tools and engineer material. These problems embrace baseline measurement, tertiary triangulation, road building, and camp layout, road and bridge reconnaissance, cordage, handling of heavy pontoon-bridge equipage, and pile drivers. During drill period from October 1 to April 30 this class receives eighteen hours' instruction in the various means and methods of communications used in the military service. During the months of April and May this class receives fifty hours' instruction in field engineering, including field fortifications. Instructions is given in the field engineering duties of line officers relating to communications, bridges with floating supports and fixed supports, demolitions, camouflage, and handling of heavy weights. The course in field fortification embraces lectures on the principles and tactics of field fortification, the siting and execution of field works, the construction of trench accessories and obstacles, and the solution of map and terrain exercises. Second Class-During drill period from October 1 to April 30 this class receives eighteen hours' instruction in field engineering. This instruction includes cordage, communication, military road and bridge construction and maintenance, castrametation, use of engineer equipment, water supply, map reproduction, and photography. (During May this class receives twenty hours of instruction in the elementary principles of telephony and radio telegraphy. This instruction is given by the Department of Chemistry and Electricity upon the completion of the course in electricity and in collaboration with this department, and is preparatory to the field work given to the first class in summer camp.) First Class. This class receives twenty-four hours of field instruction during the summer camp in the tactical use of signal communications by the combat arms of the service. During drill period from October 1 to April 30 this class receives eighteen hours of instruction in the tactical employment of signal communications, in continuation of instruction given during summer camp. Textbooks used: Surveying-Breed & Hosiner; The Slide Rule-Alexander. Books of reference. Engineer Field Manual, Office of Chief of Engineers, Washington, D. C. Engineer Field Notes, A. E. F., Office of Chief of Engineers, Washington, D. C. All signal manuals issued by Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A. Works of Field Fortification and their Application-issued by the department. |