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COLLEGES AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS 8 1
UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION
By means of the departments of Military Science and Tactics, Physical Edu
cation and Training, and Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, the University pro
vides instruction, either required or elective, in those subjects. The University
Faculty has fixed certain requirements both in physical training and in hygiene
as a minimum to be met by all undergraduate students in the first two years of
the course.
All first-year and second-year students of all the colleges at Ithaca are required
to attend lectures on hygiene and preventive medicine given once a week through
out the college year. Reading is assigned and a written examination is required.
Every
male student who is a candidate for a baccalaureate degree and is re
quired to take five, six, seven, eight or more terms in residence must, in addition
to the scholastic requirements for the degree, take one, two, three, or four terms
respectively, of three hours a week, in the Department of Military Science and
Tactics. Exceptions to this rule are made in the cases of (a) students in the Col
lege of Law, (b) students holding a baccalaureate degree of an approved college,
(c) students who neither are American citizens nor have taken out their first
citizenship papers, and (d) students physically unfit. The requirements in mili
tary science and tactics must be met term by term until completed; otherwise
the student will not be permitted to register again in the University without the
consent of the University Faculty. Students who are officially relieved of the
requirement in military science and tactics are subject to the requirement of an
equivalent period of work in the Department of Physical Training. The require
ment may be extended at the discretion of the medical adviser.
Every
woman student who is a candidate for a baccalaureate degree and is
required to take five, six, seven, eight, or more terms in residence must, in addition
to the scholastic requirements for the degree, take one, two, three, or four terms
respectively, of three hours a week, in the Department of Physical Training. The
requirements may be extended at the discretion of the medical adviser. The re
quirements in physical training must be met term by term until completed;
otherwise the student will not be permitted to register again in the University
without the consent of the University Faculty.
Freshman and sophomores may be required in exceptional cases of physical
defect to take, instead of military drill, corrective exercises in the Department of
Physical Training as prescribed by the medical adviser. Juniors and seniors are
relieved of all required physical exercises provided theirperiodical medical exam
inations show that they have kept themselves in satisfactory physical condition.
Otherwise they may be required to take or to continue corrective exercises.
MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS
The aim of the Department of Military Science and Tactics is to give training
which will enable graduates to serve effectively as officers of any forces raised by
the United States. The students are organized in an infantry regiment of twelve
regular companies and a band; a battalion of field artillery of four batteries,
one signal corps unit, one ordnance department unit, and one veterinary unit.
Officers'
This organization is the Cornell University unit of the Reserve Training
Corps of the United States Army. The War Department details officers of the
regular army to the University as professors of military science and tactics. The
course includes physical training, military drill, and the application of funda
mental principles of modern tactics.
A student electing military science and tactics in his junior and senior years
and taking five hours a week of practical and theoretical instruction therein
receives commutation of subsistence of thirty cents a day from the United States
Government provided he agrees to attend a summer camp for six weeks in one
summer; and he becomes eligible for a commission as second lieutenant of the
Officers'
Reserve Corps upon graduation. This elective training of the junior and
senior years is known as the advanced course of the Reserve Officers'
Training
Corps. It is organized in the five units named above. A student planning to take