[EMPLOYMENT OF TIME FOR THE YEAR 1851–1852.]
| Month and Date. | First Division. Second Year’sInstruction. | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Att | LbW | TL | |||
| Brought forward, | 284 | ||||
| Dec. 6 | Laying down the First Survey byReconnaissance, | 8 | |||
| Dec. 16 | Attack and Defense:—Plate, Batteries, withPlan and Sections of Detail, | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| Dec. 20 | Ditto,Plate 1, . . . 25 Journal, . . . 2 Plate 2 . . . 13 | 40 | 6 | 20 | |
| January | |||||
| Feb. 7 | Designs and Constructions of Revetments, Arches,&c., | 9 | 9 | 9 | |
| Feb.18 | Project and PermanentFortification in Hilly Ground,Plate 1 . . . 19 Memoir, . . . 3 Plate 2 . . . 8 | 30 | 8 | 19 | |
| SPECIAL WORKS. | |||||
| ARTILLERY. | ENGINEERS. | ||||
| March 25 | Measurement and Drawings of a Cannon, | Project of Fortification in hilly ground, Plate 2cont. | 12 | ||
| April 8 | Measurement of a Workshop, | Out-of-door Work, | 9 | 30 | 30 |
| April 19 | Laying down the Measurement, . . . 28 | Laying down the Measurement, . . . 24 | |||
| May 18 | Project of Fortification in hilly ground, Plate 3, . . .14 | 97 | 2 | 2 | |
| May 24 | Project for Machines, . . . 14 | ||||
| June 4 | Abstracting and calculating Measurements, . . . 3 | ||||
| June 8 | Plate 4, . . . 11 | ||||
| June 9 | Questions in Artillery, . . . 5 | ||||
1st. Measurement of Matériel, Gun Carriages, &c., . .. 8 | Register of the removal of Earth, . . . 3 | ||||
| Laying down ditto, . . . 10 | Estimate, . . . 2 | ||||
| Memoir, . . . 2 | |||||
| Project for Improvements,Plate 1 . . . 30 Plate 2 . . . 6 Memoir, . . . 2 | |||||
| July 6 | 2nd. Measurement of Matériel, . . . 8 | ||||
| July 15 | Project for a Cannon, . . . 24 | ||||
| August 12 | Second Reconnaissance Survey, | ||||
Out-of-door Work and Tracing of the Lines on theReconnaissance Plan, | 7 | ||||
One day free in case of bad weather, | 1 | ||||
| August 21 | Geodetical Calculations, | 4 | |||
| August 26 | Laying down the Reconnaissance Survey, | 8 | |||
| Sept. 4 | Memoir on Entrenched Lines, | 1 | |||
| Sept. 6 | Tracing or laying out Camps, | 1 | |||
| Sept. 7 | Operations of a Sham Siege, | 13 | |||
| One day free, | 1 | ||||
| Sept.19 | Preparing for the Examination, | ||||
| October | |||||
| Nov. 1 | Examination for leaving, | ||||
| Total of the days employed, 522 + 7 days free | 529 | ||||
[EXAMINATION AND CLASSIFICATION.]
[FINAL EXAMINATION.]
About six weeks of free or voluntary study is allowed, immediately prior to the Final Examination, for the sub-lieutenants to prepare for their last effort.
The examination which takes place prior to their leaving the School of Application, is entirely conducted by a board of six officers, under the presidency of a general officer alternately of the artillery or engineers, the remaining members of the board consisting of a general officer of each corps and three field officers of these corps; the last three being specially charged with the duty of examining. It takes place in a room set apart for the purpose, with a small interior room in connection with it, into which the members of the board retire to deliberate at the end of each student’s examination. The jury assembles each year at the period fixed by the minister of war.
The three examining members conduct the examination of the students in three different branches of study; the first more particularly relating to artillery science, the second to engineering science, and the third to mechanical science in its connection with the art of war. The whole of the students who are to leave the school are first examined in such one or other of these branches of study as may be determined on.
The student under examination is specially questioned by the examining officer in his subject, and occasionally by the president or any other member of the board that may wish to do so, for three-quarters of an hour. As soon as the examination of the student has been concluded, the board retire to the adjoining room and compare their notes of the credits they have severally awarded to the student under examination, and they also examine his drawings, sketches, and memoirs relating to the subjects on which he has been questioned, and prepared during his two years of residence in the school. They severally note the credits to which they consider him to be entitled for them, and adopt the general mean.