Military Education in the United StatesFree Press Printing Company, 1914 - 431 pages |
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1st Lieut academic board act of Congress Adjutant Agricultural College annual application appointment approved Army School Army Service Schools Army Staff College attendance authorized battalion of infantry cadets camp Capt Captain Cavalry Coast Artillery Colonel companies consists course of instruction detailed Eastern Dept enlisted examination exercises field artillery Field Service Regulations fire Fort Leavenworth Fort Riley garrison schools given Government graduates infantry Infantry Drill Regulations instructors lectures legislature lieutenants located Medical Corps Medical Officers ment Military Academy military department military instruction military school military science military tactics militia Morrill act noncommissioned officers orders Organized Militia ounces post commander practical instruction prescribed President professor of military recommendation regiment science and tactics Secretary Secretary of War selected Signal Corps Small Arms squad student officers subpost of Ft theoretical instruction tion troops United States Army University University of Vermont War Department West Point
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Page 86 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 417 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 419 - June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand dollars over the preceding year...
Page 419 - If the Secretary of Agriculture shall withhold a certificate from any State or Territory of its appropriation, the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the President, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close of the next Congress, in order that the State or Territory may, if it should so desire, appeal to Congress from the determination of the Secretary of Agriculture.
Page 418 - ... the establishment and maintenance of such colleges separately for white and colored students shall be held to be a compliance with the provisions of this act if the funds received in such State or Territory be equitably divided as hereinafter set forth...
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Page 415 - That all the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes from date of selection of said lands previous to their sales and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of moneys which may be received therefrom shall be paid by the States to which they may belong, out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied, without any diminution whatever, to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
Page 419 - SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall annually report to Congress the disbursements which have been made in all the States and Territories, and also whether the appropriation of any State or Territory has been withheld, and if so, the reasons therefor. SEC. 6. Congress may at any time amend, suspend, or repeal any or all of the provisions of this act.
Page 394 - Two triangles having an angle of the one equal to an angle of the other are to each other as the products of the sides including the equal angles.