EXAMINATION AS TO MORAL CHARACTER AND FITNESS. 11. The moral character of each applicant found physically qualified will then be inquired into, and any applicant who has not borne a good moral character before and after enlistment will be rejected, and his examination will cease. Each applicant will submit to the officer conducting the examination testimonials or certificates as to his moral character and fitness for the position of a commissioned officer, and these testimonials and certificates will be forwarded with the report of the board. 12. The board will conduct such inquiries as will enable it to render an opinion, based on observation, verbal questioning of the applicant, and upon all available data, as to whether the candidate possesses the qualifications to be desired in a commissioned officer and as to his probable ability to pass satisfactorily the final mental examination. REPORT OF THE BOARD. 13. Upon the conclusion of the preliminary examination the board will render a full report as to its proceedings and findings in the case of each applicant, and will forward this report with all papers pertaining thereto through military channels to The Adjutant General of the Army. FINAL EXAMINATION FOR APPOINTMENT AS SECOND LIEUTENANT FROM THE ARMY. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 14. Each year in which there remain vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant for appointment to which enlisted men are eligible, the War Department will, on July 1, or subsequent thereto, convene such boards as may be deemed necessary, consisting of two or more line officers and two medical officers, before which those who have successfully passed the preliminary examination will be ordered to appear to compete in the final examination for appointment to such vacancies. 15. No applicant will be ordered before the final board in any calendar year who has not successfully passed the preliminary post or departmental board during that calendar year or the one immediately preceding. An applicant who twice fails to pass the preliminary examination in years in which final examinations are held or who twice fails in his final examination will not be permitted to compete again for appointment to the grade of second lieutenant in the Army. 16. The records of the preliminary examinations of candidates ordered to take the final examination, and the papers pertaining thereto, together with such official records in the War Department as relate to the character and qualifications of such candidates for commission, will be submitted to the final board. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION. 17. Each candidate will first be subjected to a rigid physical examination, and any candidate who fails to pass it will be rejected by the board; but should he so desire, he will be permitted to undergo the mental examination with the distinct understanding that such examination will not confer upon him any right to appointment should his physical disability finally be regarded as disqualifying. This examination will conform to the rules laid down in paragraph 10 of this order, and the report of the preliminary board as to the physical qualifications of the candidate will be considered. A certificate of physical examination by the medical officers of the board will accompany the proceedings of the board in each case. MENTAL EXAMINATION. 18. Upon the completion of the physical examination will follow the mental examination, which will be written, and the questions for which will be furnished by The Adjutant General of the Army to the senior line officer of the board. Each examination paper will contain a certificate from one of the line officers of the board that the applicant has undergone the examination in his presence and without assistance from anyone. SUITABILITY FOR MOUNTED SERVICE. 19. Upon the completion of the mental examination, the board will examine the applicants for mounted service and will report upon their suitability therefor, taking into consideration only proficiency in riding, horsemanship, and size when so great as to indicate present or future unsuitability for mounted service, and the board will report them by name in two groups as determined by the result of the examination, viz: First, those considered qualified; second, those considered not qualified. COMPLETION OF PROCEEDINGS. 20. The proceedings of the board will be completed and all papers connected with the case of each candidate will be forwarded in accordance with instructions furnished by The Adjutant General of the Army. SUBJECTS FOR MENTAL EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FROM THE ARMY FOR APPOINTMENT AS SECOND LIEUTENANT IN THE CAVALRY, FIELD ARTILLERY, AND INFANTRY. [Civilian candidates are examined in these subjects. See par. 32.] 21. Each applicant who is physically qualified or desires to undergo the mental examination notwithstanding his physical defects, will be examined mentally in the following subjects, subject to the exemptions noted in paragraph 5. 1. Elementary French, German, or Spanish, as the applicant may OPTION. The candidate, before entering upon the mental examination, will submit to the board in writing his choice of subject in Group III and in 1 of Group II, and thereafter no change of subject will be allowed. SCOPE OF THE EXAMINATION. 22. The general scope of the examination in each subject will be as follows: GROUP I. 1. UNITED STATES HISTORY AND CONSTITUTION. A knowledge of prominent persons and events connected with the origin, growth, and Government of the United States, from the discovery of the American continent to the present time. The examination will not be concerned with mere annals and dates, but will require an intelligent insight into causes and effects; also, a knowledge of the evolution and principal characteristics of government and their relation to history. The textbooks used will be any good high-school history of the United States, Upton's Military Policy, and Constitutional Law, by E. G. Davis. 2. GEOGRAPHY. A general knowledge, based on information obtainable from the best school textbooks, with especial reference to the United States. The examination will require knowledge of the principal land and water features of the world and of their relations to one another; of commercial routes, navigable rivers, principal centers of population and manufacture, general location of races, political boundaries, and the natural products of certain areas. 3. ELEMENTARY ENGLISH. Knowledge of English composition, grammar, and spelling, and the ability to express clearly ideas on subjects of common knowledge or on subjects connected with the candidate's examination. The candidate will be required to write one or more 67993-18-2 letters or compositions on subjects he may select from a list given in the examination papers, to explain the meaning of certain words or phrases contained in given quotations, and will be tested generally as to his knowledge of English construction. Special attention will be paid to effective arrangement of material, power of exact statement, correct grammatical construction, and spelling. 4, 5, AND 6. MATHEMATICAL SUBJECTS. The scope of the mathematical subjects will be that usually considered necessary as a general foundation or preparation for undertaking a scientific course of study such as is covered by the following, or any other recognized textbooks on the same subjects of an equivalent standard, namely: New School Algebra (Wentworth). Plane and Solid Geometry, Revised (Wentworth). GROUP II. 1. ELEMENTARY FRENCH, GERMAN, OR SPANISH. The scope of the examination in elementary French, German, or Spanish will include the construction of the language, ability to read and write the simple forms, translation from English into French (German or Spanish), and vice versa; the knowledge to be as extended as that which would ordinarily be acquired by a college student taking a course of instruction in a first year's college course extending over about 200 recitation periods of an hour each. It is covered by the following-named or any other recognized textbook: 1. Grammar: (A) Elementary French. Elementary French Grammar (Olmsted). Aldrich and Foster, Elementary French (or) Whitney, French Grammar. Marchand, French Idioms; Martin, French Verb. 2. Composition: François, Introductory French Composition. François, Advanced French Composition (or) Weekley, French Prose Composition. (London, W. B. Olive.) |