File #3814: "1899-1900 Catalog, Classes, Military Department, Spanish-American War, 159th Indiana Regiment."

1899-1900 Catalog, Classes, Military Department, Spanish-American War, 159th Indiana Regiment.

Indiana--History; Vincennes (Ind.)--History; College Publications

Pg. 48-49. Left page: DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION (classes offered): TEACHERS' PREPARATORY WORK, cont.: Description of classes and textbooks. MILITARY DEPARTMENT: Describes history of this Dept. at V.U. , under 1st Lieut. Lee B. Purcell. Right page: MILITARY DEPARTMENT, cont.: Describes withdrawal of all college details at the breakout of the Spanish-American War, securing of an experienced officer, instruction to be provided until the government returns the students. LETTER: From the Theo. S. Duvan, Assistant Adjutant General, Adjutant General's Office, War Department, Washington, May 5, 1899; to Mr. Albert H. Yoder, President, Vincennes University: Describes regular officers on the active list, serious impairment of their regular regiments by sending them for other staff work and duties, impossibility of detaching them for college work until after demobilization and resolution of situation in Philippines. MILITARY COURSE: Describes requirement of all male students to take course unless disqualified by disability; advantages of the department, including building-up of the physical body and instillation of self-respect, subordination, self-control.

Vincennes University, Byron R. Lewis Historical Library

1899-1900

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