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to obtain from him the necessary facilities for the performance of his duties.

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The board will reconvene in Washington, D. C., not later than June 10 in each year, and after comparing individual reports of their inspections will recommend the classification of institutions and those to be designated as Distinguished colleges" and "Honor schools," and will make such further recommendations as may be deemed necessary to insure a proper compliance with the provisions of this order and to improve the methods and character of the military instruction. The board will also make special mention of such institutions as may have shown during the year gratifying improvement in their military departments.

These recommendations and the individual-inspection reports will be transmitted to the Chief of Staff not later than June 20 in each year.

A copy of the report of inspection will be furnished the president of the institution by the War Department.

DISTINGUISHED COLLEGES AND HONOR SCHOOLS.

32. For each year that an institution is designated as "Distinguished college" or "Honor school" one member of its graduating class, to be selected by the president and the professor of military science and tactics, acting jointly, will upon graduation be rated as honor graduate. By the term "honor graduate" is understood a graduate whose attainments in scholarship have been so marked as to receive the approbation of the president of the school or college, and whose proficiency in military training and knowledge and intelligent attention to duty have merited the approbation of the professor of military science and tactics. The honor graduate must be a citizen of the United States, unmarried, of exemplary habits, and of good moral character. The honor graduate of a "Distinguished college" must, in addition, be not less than 21 nor more than 27 years of age.

The name of the honor graduate should be reported to the War Department as soon as practicable after graduation.

33. Honor graduates of "Honor schools," under the provisions of this order, and those graduates who have been reported in the past as honor graduates of institutions formerly designated as Distinguished institutions," who become can

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didates for commissions in the Army and make a general average of 85 per cent or more on the competitive mental examination and fulfill the other requirements for commissions in the Army, will be appointed in advance of other candidates from civil life.

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34. In the regulations governing the examination and appointment of candidates from civil life for commissions as second lieutenant in the Army those heretofore reported as honor graduates of institutions formerly classed as Distinguished institutions" are exempted from examination in certain subjects, as are also graduates of institutions rated as class M C or class C and graduates of recognized colleges or universities.

35. The President of the United States authorizes the announcement that an appointment as second lieutenant in the Regular Army will be awarded annually to an honor graduate of each of the institutions designated as "Distinguished colleges," under the provisions of paragraph 6 of this order, provided sufficient vacancies exist after the appointment of graduates of the Military Academy at West Point, the successful competitors in the annual examination of enlisted men, and those candidates for commissions who comply with the conditions mentioned in the preceding paragraph.

The honor graduate of the "Distinguished college" must be a member of the class graduating from that institution in the year in which his appointment to the Army is made. He will not be required to take any mental examination, but may take the prescribed mental examination in order to compete for precedence in appointment with honor graduates of "Distinguished institutions" and "Honor schools."

AFFILIATION OF STUDENTS WITH THE ORGANIZED MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

36. Upon the graduation of every class, the professor of military science and tactics, after consultation with the president of the college or school, will decide upon and report to The Adjutant General of the Army the names of such students belonging to the class as have shown special aptitude for military service, and will furnish a copy of his report to the adjutants general of the States of which such graduates are resident. This report will contain the following data:

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1. Name.

2. Home address.

Business address.

3. Institution.

4. Year of graduation.

5. Age at graduation.

6. Number of years under military instruction.

7. Highest rank held.

8. Branch of service best fitted for.

9. Rank for which recommended.

10. Whether willing to serve as reserve officer; and if so, in Volunteers or Regulars.

11. Remarks.

37. It is desired to bring the cadet organizations and the Organized Militia into closer relations, and to the attainment of this end professors of military science and tactics will endeavor to interest the cadets in the National Guard and encourage them to join it upon graduation. To further increase the mutual interest of the cadets and the militia, prominent military officials of the State, with the approval of the college authorities, should be invited to inspect the work done in the military department, to review the cadet organization on suitable occasions, and should be made acquainted with the qualifications of particular cadet officers who reside in the State in which the college is situated.

Where the necessary legal authority exists or can be obtained, and where such action meets with the approval of the State and college authorities and other conditions are favorable, National Guard organizations consisting entirely of cadets should be formed.

38. All graduates should be encouraged to take the examination for commission in any volunteer force which may hereafter be called for and organized under the authority of Congress, prescribed in General Orders, No. 57, War Department, March 25, 1909, under the provisions of section 23 of the act approved January 21, 1903. Graduates whose names have been reported to The Adjutant General of the Army under the provisions of paragraph 34 of this order will be excused, if they so desire, from examinations in those subjects which are actually covered by the course of instruction, regular or special, and in which they are declared proficient by the professor of

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military science and tactics, with the concurrence of the college inspection board convened annually by the War Department. Their marks in said subjects will be rated at 75 per cent of the maximum.

ISSUE OF ARMS, ETC.

39. The following regulations are prescribed for the issue of ordnance and ordnance stores, required for military instruction and practice at colleges, universities, etc., under section 1225, Revised Statutes, and the amendments thereof.

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40. As the appropriations for the supply of ordnance and ordnance stores to the Army are very limited, and as the language of the law restricts the issue that can be made to colleges to such as can be spared for that purpose," issues of ordnance and ordnance stores to colleges will be limited to such stores as are enumerated in the following paragraphs, for the purpose of military instruction, to each selected institution having an officer of the Army stationed thereat.

41. The small arms issued to any institution of learning wili hereafter be either the United States rifle, caliber .30, model 1903, the United States magazine rifle, caliber .30, model 1898, or the United States magazine carbine, caliber .30, model 1899, but in no case will the number of arms issued be in excess of the number of male students in regular attendance and actually receiving military instruction, except as provided for elsewhere in this paragraph.

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The issue of United States rifles, caliber .30, model 1903, will be made to all institutions which have been reported as a result of the annual inspection for three consecutive years as either "Distinguished colleges" or Honor schools." In the case of institutions other than those reported as "distinguished" an issue of one United States rifle, caliber .30, model 1903, may be made for every 15 students annually participating in range practice, in addition to the United States magazine rifles, caliber .30, model 1898, with which they are now armed. For every 15 students participating in gallery practice, one gallery-practice rifle, caliber .22, may be issued.

The issue of the magazine carbine will be limited to institutions having mounted cadets and to institutions having cadet students, who on account of their youth, need the arm of lighter weight for instruction and drill. For this latter pur

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pose the magazine carbine may, upon the request of any selected institution, be altered for the attachment of the knife bayonet and gun sling, the actual cost of alteration to be paid by the institution.

42. The equipments to be used with the United States magazine rifle, model of 1898, and United States rifle, model of 1903, will consist of a bayonet scabbard, gun sling, McKeever cartridge box with leather waist belt, complete, waist-belt adapter (for use with bayonet scabbard), or, in place of the cartridge box with waist belt, a woven cartridge belt provided with pockets and suspenders, such as is worn by regular troops in field service. With the United States magazine carbine the bayonet scabbard and gun sling will not be needed, unless the carbine has been altered under the provisions of paragraph 41. Canteens, tin cups, haversacks, knives, forks, spoons, and meat cans will be supplied if so desired. Two sets of the authorized fencing equipment (infantry) will also be supplied.

43. The cavalry saber and scabbard of old design and the noncommissioned officer's sword and scabbard may be issued for the use of the officers and noncommissioned officers of corps of cadets. With the saber there will be supplied the necessary attachment for the leather belt, and with the noncommissioned officer's sword the sliding frog, to enable this sword to be worn on the ordinary waist belt. Four sets of the authorized fencing equipment (cavalry) will be supplied to those institutions having mounted detachments.

44. A limited number of cavalry sabers and scabbards with the necessary belts and horse equipments will be issued for instruction and drill of mounted cadets, when satisfactory evidence of their necessity for the purpose is presented. The horse equipments to be supplied are saddles, saddlebags, bridles, carbine scabbards, links, stirrups, hooded, with guidon socket, and spurs and straps; all equipments to be of black leather.

45. When in the opinion of the Chief of Ordnance the supply on hand will permit, breech-loading field guns, as hereinafter indicated, with their carriages, limbers, equipment, and implements, will be issued to military schools or colleges entitled to them under the provisions of paragraph 26 of this order:

2 3.2-inch steel guns.
2 breech sights.