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duty pay at the rate of at least 50 cents per day during the period of his detail.

A retired noncommissioned officer will be detailed at an institution only where an officer of the Army is on duty.

12. To be eligible for the detail of an officer on the active list as professor of military science and tactics, institutions will be required to maintain under the course of military instruction prescribed in paragraph 27 of this order, the following minimum numbers of male pupils over 15 years of age, viz: Classes M C and M, 100.

Classes C and S M, 150.

An officer of the retired list will not be detailed as professor of military science and tactics at any institution (except land-grant institutions established under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, which are required by said law to include military tactics in their courses of instruction) which does not maintain under military instruction at least 75 male pupils over 15 years of age, excepting under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved April 21, 1904, amending section 1225, Revised Statutes.

13. Where a State has more than one college endowed by the national land grant, under the act approved July 2, 1862, the college which is designated by the governor of the State will be held to have the first claim to the officer allotted to the State for detail at a land-grant institution.

14. No officer who has not had five years' commissioned service in the Army is eligible for detail as professor of military science and tactics.

15. The detail of an officer on the active list will be for three years. In case an officer achieves marked success and is willing to remain longer on such duty, his detail may, upon application of the college authorities, be extended to four years. The detail of a retired officer or noncommissioned officer will be for four years.

16. No retired officer above the rank of major will be detailed as a professor of military science and tactics unless in connection with his duties as such he is to hold the position of president, superintendent, or principal of the institution.

17. Orders detailing an officer to relieve another as professor of military science and tactics will direct him to report at the institution during the school year and not less than two weeks prior to the relief of his predecessor.

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DUTIES OF OFFICERS AND NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

18. The professor of military science and tactics will retain copies of all returns, reports, and correspondence, and will keep an accurate journal of the drills and other military instruction. He will transfer these records to the officer who may succeed him or to the person designated by the chief administrative officer of the institution. In either case a receipt will be taken for the records.

19. The officer detailed as professor of military science and tactics will reside at or near the institution to which assigned, and when in the performance of his military duties will appear in proper uniform. He will, in his relations to the institution, observe the general usages and regulations therein established affecting the duties and obligations of other members of the faculty. He will perform no duties other than those of instructor in military science and tactics, which may include the duties of commandant of cadets, except by special permission of the War Department.

20. It is the duty of the professor of military science and tactics to enforce proper military discipline at all times when students are under military instruction, and in case of serious breaches of discipline or misconduct to report the same to the proper authorities of the institution, according to its established methods. In case no suitable action is taken by the authorities of the institution, the professor of military science and tactics will report the facts to The Adjutant General of the Army.

21. Where practicable a detailed retired noncommissioned officer may be ordered to report to the officer on duty at the school for instructions as his assistant. He will be reported by the latter to the president of the school or college, and will be instructed in his relations to the institution and to its offcials. He will reside at or near the institution, and will perform no duties other than those of assistant to the instructor in military science and tactics and acting ordnance and quartermaster sergeant, except by special permission of the War Department.

ORGANIZATION.

22. Pupils under military instruction will be organized into companies, battalions, and regiments of infantry, the organi

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zation, drill, and administration of which will conform, as far as possible, to those of the Army. The strength of companies will not ordinarily exceed 58 students.

Where a battalion organization is maintained a band may be organized, provided its members be thoroughly trained to include the school of the squad.

23. All rules and orders relating to the organization and government of the military students, the appointment, promotion, and change of officers, and all other orders affecting the military department, except those relating to routine duty, will be made and promulgated by the professor of military science and tactics after being approved by the chief administrative officer of the institution.

24. Upon occasions of military ceremony, in the execution of drills, guard duty, and when students are receiving any other practical military instruction, they will appear in the uniform prescribed by the institution. They will be held strictly responsible for the arms and accouterments issued to them.

INSTRUCTION.

25. The main object of the military instruction given at civil educational institutions having Army officers as professors of military science and tactics will be to qualify students who enter the military departments of such institutions to be company officers of infantry, volunteers or militia.

26. Infantry drill and training will be considered paramount. Instruction in other branches of the military service will not be sanctioned, nor will property be issued for instruction in such branches at any particular institution, unless the infantry instruction and training at that institution are found, upon inspection by officers designated by the War Department, to have reached a satisfactory plane of efficiency.

27. The following minimum courses of military instruction, practical and theoretical, are prescribed:

At every institution at which a professor of military science and tactics is detailed it shall be provided in its regular schedule of studies that at least three hours per week, or an equivalent of 84 one-hour periods per year for two years, shall be assigned for instruction in the military department, not less than two-thirds of the total time to be devoted to practical instruction and field training, and the remainder to theoretical instruction.

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28. The instruction will vary according to the nature of the institution and the facilities afforded, but at all institutions will include the following:

Infantry drill regulations.-School of the Soldier, School of the Squad, School of the Company, Intrenchments, paragraphs 584 to 595.

Field-service regulations.-The Service of Information. The Service of Security.

Small-arms firing regulations.-Instruction preliminary to gallery and range practice. Gallery practice. Range practice, when a range can be procured.

The instruction will also include company administration, camp sanitation, and military-map reading. Whenever practicable an annual practice march and encampment will be included.

The additional ground to be covered will be determined by the instructor, having in view the age of the students, the strength of the organization, and other conditions.

Throughout the course of instruction the reasons for the successive steps in the military training will in all cases be carefully shown to the student before the initiation of that particular instruction.

The theoretical course of study will be based strictly upon the main object of the military instruction and will consist largely of talks or lectures, illustrated wherever and whenever practicable by lantern slides and by objects, and covering the essential principles and essential details of the subjects which a company officer of Infantry, Volunteers, or militia should know, and omitting, as a rule, all auxiliary subjects and subjects pertaining to advanced military studies, such as campaigns, strategy, etc., except in those cases where the study of a campaign may be made the basis of the theoretical course or where advanced subjects may be utilized to hold and maintain the interest of the students, or where the time at the disposal of the military instructor is such as will enable him to supplement his theoretical course proper with a course of lectures on those subjects.

29. The professor of military science and tactics will endeavor to impart a full knowledge of the benefits of military training to the Nation, State, institution, and student.

To this end he will, in a preliminary talk or lecture to the students entering the military department, explain the main

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object of the military instruction and make clear to the student the benefits to be conferred by the military training, not only in fitting him for the full duties of citizenship, but also In giving him the normal physical development necessary to his continued well-being throughout life.

30. In order that the graduates of the military department of the civil educational institutions having an officer detailed from the Army on duty may have knowledge of the aims, purpose, and necessity for the Army, and the necessity for a proper military organization, including thereunder not only the troops with the colors, but necessary reserves, the officer acting as professor of military science and tactics will give a course of lectures fully covering these subjects. These lectures will embody, also, a brief résumé of the main features of the military history of the United States, our present military system, and a thorough and careful exposition of the approved military policy. It is of the utmost importance that graduates of these institutions, who are presumably men of education and intelligence, shall take away with them sound and correct ideas on these most-important subjects. Too much time has generally been given to instructing students as though they were recruits, rather than in an effort to impart, in addition to this instruction, those ideas which are of vital importance in the establishment of a sound military policy.

WAR DEPARTMENT INSPECTIONS.

31. The military departments of educational institutions at which officers of the Army are detailed as professors of military science and tactics will be subject to inspection under the authority of the President of the United States. Stated inspections will begin about April 1 and be completed by June 1 in each year.

These inspections will be made by a board of four officers of the General Staff, the individual members of which will pursue itineraries to be prescribed each year.

The board will be convened in Washington, D. C., sufficiently in advance to enable the members to make such arrangements and preparations as will secure the greatest possible uniformity in methods and standards.

The inspecting officer will upon his arrival at any institution call upon the chief administrative officer present in order