SPANISH SECOND CLASS Elementary Spanish Grammar, Espi- | Scientific and Technical Spanish, Willnosa and Allen. Temas Españolas, Crawford. La Batalla del Marne, Blasco Ibáñez, COX. Doña Perfecta, Galdós. Teatro de Benavente, Benavente. Books of reference French.-French Dictionary, Cassell; French Military Technical Dictionary, Willcox. Spanish.-New Spanish-English and English-Spanish Dictionary, Cuyas, Appleton. DEPARTMENT OF LAW 63. The course in law extends throughout the first class year, half the class attending daily, Saturday excepted, for a period of one hour. The conference system of instruction is employed. The following courses are studied, each cadet attending for the number of periods indicated: Elements of law. Fall term, 22 periods. Textbook: Smith's Elementary Criminal law. Fall term, 22 periods. Textbook: Clark's Criminal Law. Evidence. Spring term, 24 periods. Textbook: McKelvey on Evidence. Moot court. Spring term, 8 periods. The department of law has a law library of about 5,000 volumes accessible to cadets. DEPARTMENT OF ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY FIRST CLASS 64. The course in ordnance and gunnery extends throughout the first class year, one-half of the class attending daily, for a period of 1 hour and 15 minutes, except for a period of 27 days, devoted to hygiene and military art instead of ordnance. During the first term the course includes a study of the properties, manufacture, care, and use of explosives, the theory of explosives, measurements of velocities and pressures, interior ballistics, exterior ballistics, projectiles, bombs, primers, fuses, ammunition supply, probability of fire, and adjustment of fire. During the second term the course includes the study of the historical development of arms, materials used in construction of arms, principles of design of guns, carriages, and recoil systems, small arms, machine guns, artillery (field, seacoast, railway, and special), automotive equipment, tanks, tractors, trailers, and fire-control equipment. The course is supplemented by lectures and by exhibits and models of the various types of arms, ammunition, and accessories. Practical instruction is given in mechanical trades and is devoted to the principal operations performed in the ordinary metal-working shops. This includes the use of hand and machine tools, bench and vise work, turning, planing, shaping, drilling, and milling operations, and the forging and hardening processes of steel. Textbooks: Ordnance and Gunnery-Tschappat. Department pamphlets on ammunition. War Department publications. DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY HYGIENE 65. The course in hygiene covers 32 periods of the cadet's fourth year at the academy and is required for all cadets. Its basic purpose is the teaching of the principles and practice of military hygiene in such a manner as to prepare the future officer so to care for his own health and that of his men in garrison and the field as to keep the effective strength of his unit as near the maximum as possible "to conserve fighting strength.' Some knowledge of anatomy and physiology is necessary as a foundation for the course, and as many cadets enter the academy without such knowledge a number of the periods, about one-third, is devoted to those subjects and constitutes a subcourse. The remainder of the course, approximately two-thirds, is devoted to the study of the elements of military hygiene. This subcourse deals mainly with principles, as its brevity precludes much more. It deals in the first part with the recruit and his environment, including personal hygiene, foods and their preparation, hygiene of the barracks, of camps, of moving troops, of hot and cold climates. The second portion deals with the causes of disease, including remote or predisposing causes, immediate or exciting causes, and carriers of disease. The third portion deals with the prevention and control of epidemics and the line officer's duties and responsibilities in relation thereto. Textbook: Ashburn-Elements of Military Hygiene, third edition. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH 66. The course in English extends through the cadet's first two years at the Military Academy. Recitation periods are on alternate week days, except Saturdays, throughout the academic year. FOURTH CLASS YEAR (September to March) English analysis and composition, and English prose readings.-This course consists of a review of the fundamental principles of English grammar, an analysis of the structure of selected English prose, and the theory of and practice in writing English exposition. Personal conferences are required between instructors and cadets on all theme work. Prose readings in the field of nineteenth century narrative, essay, and history are required in conjunction with the composition study. Textbooks: Holt and Chilton-English Analysis and Exposition. HoltSelections from the Prose of Macauley. Fiske-Essays, Historical and Literary. Pierce and Canby-Selections from Stevenson. Century Readings in English Literature. FOURTH CLASS YEAR (March to June) Survey of English literature, Shakespeare and Milton.-This work includes a detailed study for substance, method, and historical setting of three of Shakespeare's plays (a tragedy, a comedy, and a history), and the same for Milton's sonnets, certain selected shorter poems, and two books of Paradise Lost. Textbooks: Long-History of English Literature. Holt-Leading English Poets. Shakespeare-Tragedies, comedies, and histories. THIRD CLASS YEAR (entire year) Survey of English literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and oral exercises.-This course includes a study for content and form of several of the masterpieces of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including examples of the work of Swift, DeFoe, Sheridan, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Emerson, Thoreau, and Huxley. Accompanying this survey course is oral work, consisting of a series of added exercises to develop ease and fluency in speaking. These exercises include reading aloud, military exposition, reviews of articles, précis of orders, etc. Textbooks: Long-History of English Literature. Holt-Leading English Poets. Nettleton-The Major Dramas of Sheridan. Sherman-Essays and Poems of Emerson. Rogers and Pearson-The Voice of Science in the Nineteenth Century. Steeves and Ristine-Representative Essays in Modern Thought. A special course in English prose of the last half century is given to the upper sections in English during the written general review period of the fall term. Instruction is by means of lectures on the literary development of this period. The principal prose writers are considered, including such names as Meredith, Hardy, Butler, Hudson, etc. A special course in English poetry of the last half century is given to the upper sections in English during the written general review period of the spring term. The course comprises lectures on and readings from the chief verse writers of the period, including such names as Rosetti, Swinburne, Arnold, Mrs. Browning, Meredith, Hardy, Masefield, Housman, etc. DEP ARTM OF ECONOMICS, GOVERNMENT, AND POLITICAL HISTORY HISTORY Recita 67. The course in history is required of all cadets in the third class. tion periods are on alternate week days throughout the academic year. The course includes a survey of the political and international history of Europe from ancient times to the present day. Fail term: Europe from ancient times to 1789. Spring term: Europe from 1789 to the present. Textbooks: Myers-General History. Robinson-History of Western Europe. Holt and Chilton-Europe, 1789-1815. Webster-History of the Modern World. Holt and Chilton-Europe, 1862-1914. The Literary Digest Atlas of New Europe and the Far East. A special course in the history of the United States from the Civil War until the present day is given to the upper sections during the written general review period of the regular course in the spring term. Textbook: Bassett-A Short History of the United States. ECONOMICS AND GOVERNMENT The course in economics and government is required of all cadets during their first class year. Government is given during the fall term; economics during the spring term. Recitation periods are on alternate week days throughout the academic year, except for a period of 27 days given to Military Hygiene and Military Art. The study of government includes an introductory series of lectures on societal evolution and the origin of modern institutions, lessons in the general principles of modern liberal government, and in the organization and operation of the Government of the United States. Textbooks: Holt-Elementary Principles of Modern Government. Maxey— The study of economics includes an investigation of the economic organization of modern society, with special reference to the United States, and a consideration of the part money and credit play in the operation of this organization. Near the conclusion of the course, a short series of lessons on the principles of doubleentry bookkeeping is introduced. Textbooks: Clay-Economics for the 'General Reader. Moulton-The Financial Organization of Society. Twentieth Century Bookkeeping and Accounting, Part I. THE LIBRARY 68. Cadets and officers have free access to the library, which comprises approximately 108,000 volumes, with an extensive collection of maps, manuscripts, and rare books. The collection contains substantially all standard books on the subjects taught in the academy, and is especially complete in military subjects. Its card catalogues (about 380,000 cards) are arranged with the special object of saving the time of cadets. The library is open on week days from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.; on Sundays and holidays from 2 to 4 p. m. ANNUAL PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF CADETS 69. All cadets are examined physically in April of each year, and those found physically disqualified to continue with the course, or, in case of the first class, for commission in the Army, are discharged. VACATIONS AND LEAVES OF ABSENCE 70. Academic duties are suspended from the completion of the June examinations until the end of August. During this period cadets are engaged in military duties and exercises and in receiving practical instruction in military and other subjects. Academic duties are also suspended from December 24 until January 2, except for those undergoing examination. All duties and exercises, as far as practicable, are suspended on New Year's Day, February 22, May 30, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. Cadets of the first, second, and third classes not undergoing examinations are allowed leaves at Christmas, and week-end or holiday leaves, which may be taken in any one of eight designated months, are granted to cadets of the first class, 1 provided this privilege does not interfere with academic or military duty and is warranted by their disciplinary and academic records and money accounts. Excepting such leaves, cadets under ordinary circumstances are allowed but one leave of absence during the four-year course. This leave is granted to those cadets who have successfully completed the third class course of study and extends from the middle of June to the 28th of August. PROMOTION AFTER GRADUATION 71. The act of Congress approved May 17, 1886, to regulate the promotion of graduates of the United States Military Academy provides: "That when any cadet of the United States Military Academy has gone through all its classes and received a regular diploma from the academic staff, he may be promoted and commissioned as a second lieutenant in any arm or corps of the Army in which there may be a vacancy and the duties of which he may have been adjudged competent to perform." The act approved June 4, 1920 (National Defense Act), section 24e, provides: "Appointment of officers. Except as otherwise herein provided, appointments shall be made in the grade of second lieutenant, first, from graduates of the United States Military Academy." NOTE.-The information contained in this circular is subject to change at any time. O |