STAFF COLLEGE.

OFFICIAL DESIGNATION, ORGANIZATION, AND

ADMINISTRATION.

1. The College is officially designated the General Service and Staff College.

2. The Commandant shall be an officer especially selected for that duty and detailed pursuant to orders from the War Department.

3. The Staff of the College shall consist of the Assistant Commandant and the Instructors in charge of departments. A majority thereof shall constitute a quorum for business. All deliberations, discussions, and individual votes of the Staff are to be regarded as confidential.

4. There shall be a Secretary of the College, appointed by the Commandant.

5. The Instructors shall be assisted by such number of Assistant Instructors, designated by the Commandant, as may be required.

6. When practicable, the Instructors and Assistant Instructors shall be senior in rank to the officers of the student class; but when officers assigned as Instructors or Assistant Instructors are junior in rank to officers of the student class, they shall, in the execution of such duty, be respected accordingly. 7. The Instructors and Assistant Instructors shall be exempt from all duties which would interfere with the performance of duty as instructors or assistant instructors.

8. The officers designated as members of the student class shall be detailed in orders from the War Department. As soon as a list of the officers so selected has been furnished to the Commandant of the College, he shall cause the program of instruction and the list of authorized text-books to be sent to them.

9. The officers and the enlisted force and equipment of the several organizations on duty at the post shall be available for the practical instruction of officers of the student class in field operations and drill regulations, at such times as may be deemed necessary by the Commandant.

10. In all matters of post administration affecting the interests of the College, or of the officers on duty therewith, the commanding officer of the post of Fort Leavenworth, Kans., will confer with the Commandant.

DISCIPLINE.

11. The College shall be governed by the rules of discipline prescribed for military posts and by the regulations of the College. Matters pertaining to the College and the course of instruction shall be exclusively subject to the control of the War Department.

COMMANDANT OF THE COLLEGE.

12. The Commandant shall from time to time apply to the War Department for the detail of officers for duty at the College, and from them he shall assign the Assistant ComLaandant, the Instructors, the Assistant Instructors, and the Secretary.

13. The Commandant shall make application to the War Department for such articles of engineer, ordnance, and signal property as may be necessary.

14. The Commandant shall make annual report to the Chief of Staff of the Army of the progress and wants of the College after each yearly examination.

15. The post commander will order the expenditure of such quantity of ammunition for field guns, machine guns, and small arms as may be deemed necessary by the Commandant for proper instruction.

ASSISTANT COMMANDANT OF THE COLLEGE.

16. The Assistant Commandant shall preside at the meetings of the Staff in the absence of the Commandant.

17. The Assistant Commandant shall inspect the methods of instruction in the several departments and shall frequently

visit the section rooms during recitations or lectures. He shall make report in writing to the Secretary of the College from time to time for the information of the Commandant. If occasion should arise he will make immediate report.

THE SECRETARY OF THE COLLEGE.

18. The Secretary shall be the custodian of the records. He is responsible for the College fund and for all property purchased therefrom.

19. All official correspondence relating to the College from members thereof shall be addressed to the Secretary.

DEPARTMENTS.

20. The course of instruction shall be embraced in four departments, as follows:

First-Department of Tactics.

Second-Department of Engineering.

Third-Department of Law.

Fourth-Department of Military Sanitation and Hygiene. The instructors assigned by the Commandant shall have charge of these departments respectively.

21. The departments shall include the courses of study as follows:

Department of Tactics: The courses of tactics and minor tactics, organization of armies, field exercises with and without troops, hippology, equitation, lectures on the elements of strategy, and on visual and electrical signaling.

Department of Engineering: The courses of military topography and sketching, field fortification, and field engineering. Department of Law: The course of law.

Department of Military Sanitation and Hygiene: The course of military sanitation and hygiene.

INSTRUCTION.

22. The course of instruction shall be as provided for in the program of instruction, covering one year consisting of two

terms.

23. The first term's course shall begin on the 15th of September, unless that date fall on Saturday or Sunday, in which case

the course shall begin on the following Monday. It shall end on the 21st of December, concluding with the semiannual examinations.

The second term's course shall embrace the period from the 4th day of January to the 10th day of June following, concluding with the final examinations.

24. The month of June from the 11th to the 30th following the final examinations shall be devoted to such practical exercises in the field as may be ordered by the Commandant.

25. Recitations, including exercises in application, shall be held daily excepting Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. The period from December 22 to January 4, both dates inclusive, shall also be excepted.

At stated intervals, to be determined by the Commandant, during the course of instruction in each department, theses shall be prepared by the student officers in addition to their regular class-room work. The subjects shall be assigned by the respective instructors with the approval of the Commandant. They shall be germane to the subject under instruction and shall be such as will not involve unreasonable labor in preparation. In determining the merit of such work stress shall be laid, not merely upon soundness of conclusions, but also upon combined clearness and terseness of statement and of reasoning. The aim shall be to make them models of military memoranda, as complete and in as few words as will clearly express the ideas.

26. All student officers shall be embraced in one class, which shall be divided into sections of convenient size and adaptation.

27. Record shall be kept of all recitations and exercises, and weekly report of the same shall be made through the instructors to the Commandant.

66

28. Recitations shall be classified as "satisfactory" or unsatisfactory." Each unsatisfactory recitation shall be at once reported to the Commandant, who will require an explanation in writing from the officer reported.

29. The study of text-books and recitations therefrom shall be supplemented by lectures and exercises in application. Recitations shall not as a rule exceed one hour for each section, but this time limitation shall not apply to practical exercises.