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180 ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT.
Gallery and range practice, 200 and 300 yards. Spring term. Hours
to be arranged.
The marksman's badge, presented by
Gen. A. C. Barnes of the
Board of Trustees, will be conferred on each student qualifying as
marksman ; a bar to be added for each subsequent qualification.
5. Military Science. Lectures and text book. Winter. T.,Th., 12.
Any member of the Corps who has satisfactorily performed all the
duties required for the first year, and who is qualified therefor, may
be selected for the place of a commissioned officer, if needed. For the
performance of his duties as a commissioned officer in the junior or
senior year, he is entitled, if duly registered, to credit of three recita
tion hours a week for the fall and spring terms, and, at graduation,
he may receive a certificate of military proficiency with his diploma,
provided he has also completed the course in military science pre
scribed for the winter term of the senior year.
On the graduation of each class, the names of such students as have
shown special aptitude for military service will be reported to the
Adjutant General of the Army and to the Adjutant General of the
State of New York, and the names of the three most distinguished
students in science military and tactics will, when graduated, be in
serted in the U. S. Army Register and published in general orders
from headquarters of the army.
HYGIENE AND PHYSICAL CULTURE.
An introductory or general course of lectures is given each year to
all freshmen in the University. Advanced courses of instruction are
also given each year. These take up the various problems of physical
culture, and consider the auxiliary appliances for their solution.
Special attention is given to the needs of students intending to teach.
For the physical training and development of male students there
has been provided a Gymnasium, thoroughly equipped with baths,
dressing-rooms, and all the apparatus usually found in a well-fur
nished gymnasium. This is under the charge of an experienced phy
sician, the Professor of Physical Culture and Director of the Gymna
sium, who examines male every student at his entrance and at stated
intervals thereafter, learns the condition of his health, takes his phy
sical measurements, and prescribes such exercises as may be required
for his complete and symmetrical bodily development. The gymna
sium is also open to all the members of the University for voluntary
exercise ; but the Professor of Physical Culture or the Instructor in
Gymnastics is in constant attendance, and no student is suffered to
indulge in hazardous or excessive athletic efforts, or to attempt any
feat which in his individual case might be attended with risk.