Show MILITARY ARY TRAINING thousands Thousand 3 of boys boya annually grounded Ground od in tho uso UBO of arms arma institutions tho the country where more locra floors Off Of are stationed for fop the of uve soldiers J r tho the importance attached to popular military education is shown by the including cl in the official army register a list of the students who baand highest in tho military courses taught by army offices offic cra at some soine schools and colleges As AB many as fifty subalterns subal terns may now bo be detailed as instructors instruct oin of tactics in colleges tand a academics and forty eight ru cuch 1 I institutions were werd at the last official report enjoying ON privilege they are arc scattered all over vie the country from thi th maine state college fco the university of california and from the university of north dakota to the agricultural college of texas there are arc also five 1170 retired two captains and three lieutenants in charge of institutions at mount Plew pleasant sant Pari faribault bault garden city peekskill Peek skill and portland probably few people have bave reflected to what hat exeunt this form of popular military adoration is carried on the statistics show that last year more than man seven thousand of the pupils at these cheso in received military instruction it is in over half of them and iu in most of tho the remainder it is compulsory on part of the classes the senior or graduating class being most moat I 1 likely il cely to be exempt in only three or cr four cases is it purely optional for everybody six of the institutions have military camping four have marches for instruction c matly exactly half have target practice w with I 1 ith small arms arins and bl ach have practice with v ith artillery in most casas the rilles rifles aro are the property of the united states but in beven or eight instances tho state stat ni ashes them thein and in two they belong to the college ingen in general the condition of these arms was good but the now new york ledger acknowledges there were a few notable exceptions in all but one of the institutions military uniforms are arc worn there is a great in the amount of military ork done one institution having only a bingle drill per week while one holds ten in some cases the officer has other duties particularly ass aa instructor in mathematics while civil engineer ing U french and drawing are subjects for which aich a few are arc called upon w as aloo are arc the inspection of rooms assistance in aud so on in sonic some in filae eq this o otra citra tra duty ditty is liberally reimbursed imbur sed tius thus the nevada university gi gives ves a amp ot of twelve hundred collais dol lai a year while the mi mississippi aiss i PP college coll ego gives ciet hundred dollars it is clear that while this system of popular military education is still capable of much improvement it furnishes the most c economical method which tho the government ern went can employ for thia purpose year after year thousands of young men receive through drills and le eturea the elow elements ats of a military training and some who in turn fmc teachers liay repent repeat the lessons or r their pupils 4 |