The first nine months of each year of study are principally devoted to theoretical instruction, the three last exclusively to practice. In the third cœtus, the course finishes with the theoretical instruction on the 1st of July.
The instruction of the first cœtus is directed to prepare the students for the ordinary Officers’ Examination, and at the same time to enable them to follow with advantage the further studies of the school. The instruction, during the first year, is common to all the students. Those who pass the Officers’ Examination enter at the commencement of the second year into the second cœtus.
In the second cœtus the greater portion of the instruction, but not the whole, is common to the two arms. In the third cœtus an almost entire separation of studies takes place.
In all the studies which are common to the two arms, if the number of students is too great for a single class, parallel classes are established.
[THE STAFF AND AUTHORITIES.]
[A.—The Superior Authorities.]
The Curatorium of the School is composed of the General Inspectors of the two corps. To it belongs the authority of issuing orders and regulations; no important change in these can be made without its sanction.
The General Inspector of Military Instruction receives yearly at fixed periods, reports upon the state and progress of the school.
The accounts are under the control of the War Department, with which the Director of the School is in immediate communication. Questions of principle and unforeseen cases of importance are decided by the Curatorium.