(1.) To Fencing, three hours a week are given throughout.
(2.) To the Cavalry Drill two hours weekly in the first division. It is replaced by Infantry Drill in the second.
The studies which none but the senior division pursue are,—
(1.) Artillery studies, which occupy 4½ hours weekly.
(2.) Geography, meaning chiefly the military geography of a country, with a few lectures on statistics and political economy; these take 1½ hours weekly.
(3.) Geodesy, or trigonometrical surveying, also for 1½ hours.
The only strictly literary occupation is the study of German for about three hours per week during the whole time. We were told that a large proportion of the pupils unite among themselves to learn English privately, but no public course is given.
[THE EXAMINATIONS.]
The students have two examinations to go through in each year; the first commencing about the first of June, the last in November, and each of the first year’s examinations is held before a jury consisting of—