MANY MILITARY COURSES IN 1916-17 CURRICULUM

Systematic instruction in military art will be offered next year, according to the final announcement of courses, which may now be had at University 2. In the anticipated event of Congress passing the "Reserve Officers' Training Corps Act," the War College Division of the General Staff, charged with standardizing military instruction, has given provisional approval to the scheme as suitable for military instruction of candidates for appointment as reserve officers in the United States Army.

Supplementary to courses enumerated below, the War Department will prescribe certain requirements for appointment as reserve officers, and the officers of the Army detailed at the institution will be charged with giving instruction in that portion directly connected with the military art course.

Courses are grouped under two heads: Line School; Special Schools. The Line School is intended to cover requirements for service in all branches and its graduates will be available for reserve officers of infantry, field artillery, cavalry, engineers, and coast artillery. Following are the courses of instruction offered for 1916-17 in the Line School: Military Art 1 (military art at the present day); History 55, introduction to military history and theory; Government 4, international military law; Government 35 hf., administration of the Army and Navy Departments, military railroads, sanitation; Engineering Sciences 4a, surveying and sketching (Squam Lake Camp); Economics 1a, statistics; one course in either French, German, or Spanish; one course in Mathematics; and one course in either Physics, Chemistry, or Geography.

A student in the Special Schools who takes, in addition to the courses in the Line School, four courses either in Engineering Sciences and Mathematics; or Meteorology and Climatology; or Economics; or Chemistry; or an approved program in scientific subjects, may receive a special designation under categories recognized by the War Department. His scheme of a study must, however, be submitted to and approved by the Committee on Military Instruction and the Military Instructor.

Students may qualify under this scheme either by selecting as their field for concentration one of the departments, such as History, Government, Engineering, Economics, Chemistry, and Meteorology (geology), in which prescribed courses fall; or by a proper selection of subjects for distribution. Any arrangement of courses must meet the existing rules for concentration and distribution.