UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY.
Army War This institution at Washington, D. C., was formerly established by General Orders 155, 27 Nov. 1901. This order provided for the executive head of the college to be an officer not below the grade of field officer, and for a War College Board to prepare regulations for the government of the college, etc. The objects of the War Col lege are: (a) The direction and co-ordination of military education in the army and in civil schools and colleges at which officers of the army are detailed under acts of Congress and the extension of opportunities for in vestigation and study in the militia of the United States. (b) To provide facilities for and to promote advanced study of military subjects and to formulate the opinions of the college body on the subjects studied for the information of the chief of staff. The per sonnel of the Army War College is in part permanent and in part temporary. The per manent personnel consists of a president, to be assigned to that duty by the Secretary of War, and the officers for the time being of the second section, War Department General Staff. Two directors and a secretary of the college are selected from the permanent personnel of the section.
Army Staff The object of this college is to train the selected graduates of the Army School of the Line for the more important staff duties with large commands in time of war. The assistant commandant of the Army Service Schools is the director of the Army Staff College. Selections of student officers are made as follows: (a) They are detailed annually, by the War Department, from the highest graduates of the latest class of the Army School of the Line who receive the recommendation of the academic board, approved by the commandant, and who desire to take the course: provided that an officer once detailed to the Army Staff College, and through sickness or War Department orders, is prevented from completing the course, may be redetailed as a member of a succeeding class, upon the recommendation of the academic board, approved by the commandant. (b) With .the exceptions noted under (c) no officer of the army is detailed for instruction in the Army Staff College who has not been graduated at the Army School of the Line with a standing as high as No. 18, exclusive of militia officers, and no militia officer is eligible for admission to the college unless he has been graduated at the Army School of the Line with a percentage as high as that of the regular officer lowest in class standing who has qualified in accordance with the fore going. No officer is detailed for instruction in the Army Staff College without the recom mendation of the academic board, approved by the commandant. (c) In addition to the
students who become eligible under (a) and (b) there may be detailed annually by the War Department, upon the recommendation of the academic board, approved by the commandant, not to exceed two graduates of the Army Field Engineer School, who may so desire, to receive instruction in the Army Staff College. To become eligible for such detail, graduates of the Army Field Engineer School must attain a percentage in the course in military art as high as the student officer graduating No. 18 in that course of the Army School of the Line.
The course of study is embraced in four departments, as follows: (1) The department of military art; (2) The department of mili tary engineering; (3) The department of military law; (4) The department of Ian gauges. • Army School of the The object of this school is the instruction of specially selected officers from the line of the army in the proper methods to be employed in the leading and care of troops in time of war, and their training in time of peace. The assistant commandant of the Army Service Schools is the director of the Army School of the Line. Selections of student officers are made as follows: (a) One officer of grade not lower than that of captain and of not less than five years' commissioned service from each regiment of cavalry, field artillery, and infantry serving within the limits of North America and the Hawaiian Islands, and such other officers as are hereinafter specified. Offi cers are not detailed from regiments in service, or about to serve in the Philippine Islands, but in lieu thereof additional officers may be de tailed from regiments of the same arm which have most recently returned, or are about to return, from Philippine service to home sta tions; but not more than five officers are de tailed from the field artillery for any one class. (b) The commanding officer of each regiment of cavalry, field artillery and infantry serving within the limits of North America and the Hawaiian Islands submit directly to the adjutant general of the army, not later than 1 January of each year, the names of two officers (one as principal and the other as alternate) recommended for instruction at the school. From the officers thus recommended selections are made by the Secretary of War. (c) In a similar manner, the chief signal officer of the army may annually recommend one permanent officer of his corps, with the same limitations as to grade and length of service. The course of study is embraced in three departments, as follows: (I) The depart ment of military art; (2) The department of military engineering; (3) The department of military law.