The student class at the school was composed of 13 members, 1 of whom was transferred from the school before the completion of the course of instruction on account of sickness. Of the 12 remaining members of the class, 9 received the diploma of the school, and 3 others, not being entirely proficient in all the branches taught at the school, failed to receive the diploma. No attempt has been made to arrange the names of the student officers in order of merit, as the courses of study pursued by them differed materially and it is difficult to make a proper comparison. Such grading is generally distasteful to the student officers and many objections are urged against it. The experience of the past school year has shown the desirability of some other incentive than now exists on the part of such officers as possess the capacity but lack the disposition to apply themselves. It is believed that the experience with many, if not all, of the classes of the past has been similar. The fact that an officer is a graduate of the Artillery School is not only noted in the Army Register, but it serves for a period of five years in lieu of an examination for promotion. It is therefore felt to be only just to the school that in the case of any officer who, having taken any course of instruction at the school, is pronounced deficient therein and therefore ineligible for a diploma, some appropriate penalty should be imposed, unless, in the opinion of the school board, the failure to attain proficiency was not due to any fault or neglect on the part of the student officer. Very respectfully, F. L. GUENTHER, Colonel Artillery Corps, Commandant. INDEX. Page. Work on Trans-Alaskan military road Abercrombie, William R., Captain, 7th U. S. Infantry. Mentioned... Ables, Arthur, Private, Co. F, 9th U. S. Infantry. Wounded at Tientsin, Adams, Fort, Rhode Island. Garrison, armament, etc 67 279 201 182 237 Adams, Granger, Captain, Artillery Corps, U. S. A. Mentioned 292, 293 Adjutant-General's Department. Adjutant-General, rank.. 51 Casualties among officers.. 22 Consolidation with Inspector-General's Department Method of proportioning details between three arms of service 161-164 45 Placing on civil service eligible list recommended Adjutant-General, U. S. Army. 52, 53 53 52 53 Cyclone at Galveston, Tex Distribution of Army Employees-Quartermaster's Department.. Government Hospital for Insane Instruction of the Army See also Instruction. Military Academy. Military Attachés-Embassies and Legations. Military Geographical Departments... Military Information Division- Map section..... Photographic room.. Army Transport Service, mails and cables to Philippine Islands.. 69 71 Agramonte, Aristides, Contract Surgeon, U. S. A. Mentioned.. 28 31-33 17 187 288 Beef and fresh vegetables condemned in, during year 1900.. Aleshire, James B., Major, Quartermaster, U. S. A., in charge of Army 67, 68, 276, 277, 279 279 68 68, 279 19 140 277 68 280, 281 278 157 Alexander, William L., Lieut. Colonel, Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. A. Mentioned.. 287 Allaire, William H., Captain, 23d U. S. Infantry. Mentioned. 265 289 35, 80, 245 56, 57 200 Almy, William E., Major, Porto Rico Provisional Regiment (Captain, 5th U. S. Cavalry). Mentioned American Mules and Horses. Condition and health of.. American Soldier. Comparison with allies... Cavalry). Native Philippine forage for American horses Anderson, Harry R., Major, Artillery Corps, U. S. A. Mentioned... Anglum, Daniel F., Captain, 12th U. S. Infantry. Mentioned. Apache, Fort, Arizona. U. S. troops at Complaints of, regarding farm and garden supplies, subsistence, etc....... 269 268 |