REGULATIONS FOR THE CONFEDERATE STATES SCHOOL-SHIP PATRICK HENRY.
CHAPTER 5.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.
First Branch – Seamanship.
Second Branch – Naval Tactics.
Third Branch – Steam.
First Branch – Theory and Practice
of Gunnery.
Second Branch – Field Artillery.
Third Branch – Infantry Tactics.
Fourth Branch – The Art of
Defence.
First Branch – Astronomy.
Second Branch – Navigation.
Third Branch – Surveying.
First Branch – Arithmetic.
Second Branch – Algebra.
Third Branch – Geometry.
Fourth Branch – Trigonometry.
Fifth Branch – Application of
Algebra and Trigonometry to the mensuration of planes and solids.
First Branch – English Grammar.
Second Branch – Descriptive
Geography.
Third Branch – Physical Geography.
Fourth Branch – History.
Fifth Branch – Political Science.
First Branch – French.
Second Branch – Spanish.
2. The foregoing studies shall be distributed into four annual courses, and the acting midshipmen shall be arranged in four classes, each class pursuing one of these courses; and each class may be subdivided into convenient sections, according to the relative standing of the members in the several branches of study.
3. The studies for the fourth class shall be: Practical Seamanship, Gunnery and Artillery and Infantry Tactics, Arithmetic and Algebra to Equations of the first degree, English Grammar and Descriptive Geography. For the third class: Practical Seamanship, Gunnery and Artillery and Infantry Tactics, Algebra, Geometry, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Physical Geography and History – French. For the second class: Seamanship and Steam, Gunnery and Field Artillery, Astronomy and Navigation, Application of Algebra and Trigonometry to the mensuration of planes and solids, Political Science, French. For the first class: Seamanship and Naval Tactics, Gunnery and Infantry Tactics, Navigation and Surveying, French and Spanish.
4. The professors and heads of departments of instruction, in order to ascertain the proficiency of the sections intrusted immediately to their assistants, the relative merits and qualifications of the students of the whole class, and the manner in which the assistants have performed their duty, shall, occasionally, instruct each of the sections intrusted to the assistants.
5. Professors and instructors will be held responsible for the regular and orderly conduct of their respective classes and sections whilst under their immediate instruction. They will not allow any student to absent himself from the recitation room, unless for satisfactory reasons; nor will they fail to report the wants of preparation, the absence or misconduct of any student at recitation.
6. Each professor, instructor, or assistant, shall keep daily notes of the progress and relative merit of those in the classes or sections under his charge. The assistants shall make weekly reports of such notes to the heads of departments to which the classes or sections respectively belong. These reports shall be rendered weekly to the commandant by the head of each department, accompanied by a similar report of his own section or sections, with such explanatory remarks as may be necessary to show the relative progress in the sections; and he shall, at the same time, recommend the transfers which should, in his judgment, be made from one section to another. (See Forms.)
7. Monthly reports shall be made up according to Form C, for every academic month in the academic year, and be signed and forwarded to the Secretary of the Navy by the commandant. These reports shall show the relative standing of the members of each class in the different studies in which they have been instructed, and their conduct or demerits. For the months in which there has been an examination, these reports shall be based on the weekly reports and the results of those examinations, and for other months upon the weekly reports only.
8. The academic month shall be understood to terminate on the Saturday which may happen to fall nearest the last day of the month, whether such Saturday precede or follow that day. Monthly academic returns will be made to the commandant by the professors and heads of departments accordingly.
9. The academic year shall begin on the 15th of January, and end on the completion of the following December examination. The academic year shall be divided into two terms; the first to commence with the academic year, and to terminate at the close of the June examination; and the second to commence on the 15th July, and to terminate with the close of the December examination, or the end of the academic year.
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