| One professor, | Military and civil engineering. |
| One assistant professor, | |
| Two acting assistant professors, | |
| One professor, | Natural and experimental philosophy. |
| One assistant professor, | |
| Two acting assistant professors, | |
| One professor, | Mathematics. |
| One assistant professor, | |
| Five acting assistant professors, | |
| One professor, | Drawing. |
| One assistant professor, | |
| One acting assistant professor, | |
| One professor, | French. |
| One assistant professor, | |
| Three acting assistant professors, | |
| One professor, | Spanish. |
| One assistant professor, | |
| One acting assistant professor, | |
| One professor, | Ethics and Law. |
| One assistant professor, | |
| One acting assistant professor, | |
| One professor, | Chemistry, mineralogy, andgeology. |
| One assistant professor, | |
| Two acting assistant professors, | |
| One instructor, | Ordnance and gunnery. |
| One assistant instructor, | |
| One instructor, | Practical military engineering. |
| One assistant instructor, | Military signals and telegraphing. |
| One sword master. |
The Academic Board consists of the Superintendent, the Commandant of Cadets, the Professors of the Academy, and the Instructors of Practical Military Engineering, and of Ordnance and Gunnery.
All the professors and instructors, with their assistants and acting assistants, have been educated at West Point, with exception of the chaplain, the professors of French and Spanish, and the sword master. All are regularly enrolled in the military service of the United States, and subject to military discipline.
Professors and Assistants.
The professor or chief instructor in each branch is responsible for the efficiency and uniformity of the system of instruction in his own department. To this end he has no special class or section assigned to him for tuition. His time is devoted to general superintendence, and is chiefly spent in visiting the halls of study of his assistants. He does, however, take the instruction of the different sections, each in their turn, as he sees fit, and occasionally assembles all the sections of his department for lecture.
The assistant and acting assistant professors or instructors are always appointed from among officers on the full pay of their regiments who have graduated at the Academy, on the recommendation of the professor or chief instructor of the branch in which there is a vacancy to be filled. These assistants are carefully selected through means of the data of their proficiency, temper, and general character, afforded by their record of four years’ residence as cadets. They are, thus, all of them previously well known to the professors to whom they are to act as assistants, and to whom they are naturally inclined to defer from old associations.
The term of duty at the Academy of the assistant and acting assistant professors and instructors is fixed at four years, at the end of which period they return to regimental service. Duty at the Academy is obligatory on every officer who may be selected for it, and is considered as part of the general service which every officer who has graduated at West Point, owes to the country; practically those only are selected to whom the duty is not disagreeable.
Admission
Each congressional or territorial district of the United States (i.e. each district entitled to return a member to Congress), is by law entitled to have one cadet receiving education at the Academy.