113. Care of property.-All Government property must be kept in serviceable condition. A proper allowance of cleaning material and spare parts will be issued for this purpose on requisition. 114. Loss, etc., of property.-When property is lost, destroyed, stolen or damaged, or becomes unserviceable from any cause whatsoever, the cause will be investigated by an officer of the United States Army detailed for that purpose. If it appears that the loss, damage, or unserviceability is due to neglect or any lack of reasonable care or precaution on the part of the authorities of the institution or any member of the R. O. T. C., the institution must reimburse the United States for such loss or damage. When property becomes damaged, except for such deterioration as is due to fair wear and tear incident to the use of the property in military instruction prescribed or authorized by the Secretary of War, the property will be surveyed to determine the responsibility for such damage. 115. Surveys of property.-Property lost, destroyed, or damaged, due to unavoidable causes and without fault or neglect on the part of the institution or any member of the R. O. T. C., or which is worn out due to fair wear and tear, incident to its use in military instruction prescribed or authorized by the Secretary of War, will be repaired or replaced at the expense of the United States. To determine whether such loss or damage and wear has been due to unavoidable causes without fault or neglect on the part of the institution, a survey will be made as provided by Army Regulations, paragraphs 710-726, as amended. 116. Receipts.-Student members of the R. O. T. C. shall be required to receipt on proper form for all articles of Government property issued to them. In case articles are lost the student should be charged with the value of same. 117. Care and accountability of property.-Detailed instructions for the care, use, preservation, and accountability of Government property are found in the Army Regulations and in other regulations or instructions issued by the War Department. 118. Acting supply officer.-At each institution an officer of the Army shall be appointed an acting supply officer by the Secretary of War. He shall act as agent officer of the zone finance officer for the disbursal of all Government funds allotted to the institution in connection with the maintenance of the R. O. T. C. and shall assist the authorities of the institution in the preparation of all requisitions, reports, and returns required by the War Department pertaining to the supply service. Transportation and finance officers will not be appointed at educational institutions. Finance matters will be handled by zone finance officers and bills of lading and transportation requests will be prepared by transportation officers at district headquarters. 119. Books and maps.-A reasonable number of textbooks, manuals, and maps, will be furnished to the institution by the War Department for issue to the members of the R. O. T. C. For the acquirement of additional copies, see paragraph 9, Appendix VI. 120. Forms.-The War Department will issue such blank forms as may be necessary for the proper instruction and administration of these units. 121. Individual care of equipment.-As far as practicable each student should be required to care for his rifle and equipment during the first two years of military training, this instruction being considered an essential part of the course. 130 131 Commissions for honor graduates of distinguished colleges- Honor graduates of honor schools candidates for West Point- 132 122. Colleges, requirements and number.-Colleges and universities (including land-grant colleges), not exceeding 20 per cent of the institutions maintaining units of the senior division, which best meet the following conditions, will be designated as distinguished colleges, and the year, or years, in which distinguished will be added: a. The curriculum of the institution must be sufficiently advanced to confer degrees. b. The average age of students on graduation must not be less than 21 years. c. The student body must exhibit unusual efficiency in military training. d. Graduates of that year must by reason of discipline, education, and military training be qualified for commissions in the Army. 123. Honor schools, requirements and number.-Essentially military schools, not exceeding 10 of the whole number in that class, whose students display the greatest degree of military efficiency, will be designated as honor schools, and the years in which so designated will be added. 124. R. O. T. C. units.-No institution shall be designated as a distinguished college or honor school unless it maintains one or more units of the R. O. T. C. 125. Inspections.-In addition to the inspections by the district inspectors, a special inspection by a committee of the War Plans Division, General Staff, for the purpose of selecting the distinguished colleges and honor schools, will begin about April 1 and be completed by about June 1 in each year. 126. Selection.-After careful consideration of these reports, the R. O. T. C. Inspection Committee of the War Plans Division, General Staff, will prepare and submit to the Chief of Staff, not later than June 20 in each year, the lists of institutions recommended to be designated as distinguished colleges and honor schools. 127. Honor graduates of distinguished colleges.-For each year that an institution is designated a distinguished college, one member of its graduating class,. to be selected by the president of the institu tion and the professor of military science and tactics, will, upon graduation, be rated as honor graduate. 128. Honor graduates of honor schools.-For each year that an essentially military school is designated as an honor school, one member of its graduating class, to be selected by the president of the institution and the professor of military science and tactics, will, upon graduation, be rated as honor graduate. 129. Definition of "honor graduate."-By the term "honor graduate" is understood a gradute whose attainments in scholarship have been so marked as to receive the approbation of the president of the school or college and whose proficiency in military training and intelligent attention to duty have merited the approbation of the professor of military science and tactics. The honor graduate must be a citizen of the United States, unmarried, of exemplary habits, and of good moral character. The honor graduate of a distinguished college must be not less than 21 nor more than 27 years of age. 130. Commissions for honor graduates of distinguished colleges. An appointment as provisional second lieutenant of the Regular Army will be awarded annually to the honor graduates of distinguished colleges, provided such vacancies exist after the appointment of graduates of the Military Academy at West Point, and of enlisted men of the Regular Army qualified after competitive examination. 131. Mental examination omitted.-The honor graduate of a distinguished college will not be required to take a mental examination, but will be examined physically. 132. Honor graduates of honor schools candidates for West Point.-Honor graduates of honor schools may be nominated as candidates for the United States Military Academy at West Point. The regulations relative to appointment and admission of cadets to the United States Military Academy will govern. 133. Classes: M C, C, M, S M.-Institutions to which officers of the Army are detailed under the provisions of section 1225, Revised Statutes of the United States, of the acts of Congress amendatory thereof, and of the act of June 3, 1916, and other institutions affording military instruction under section 56, act of June 3, 1916, will be divided into classes as follows: Class M C.-Colleges and universities (including land-grant institutions) where the curriculum is sufficiently advanced to carry with it a degree, where the students are habitually in uniform, where the average age of the students on graduation is not less than 21 years, where military discipline is constantly maintained, and where one of the leading objects is the development of the student by means of military drill and by regulating his daily conduct according to the principles of military discipline. Class M.-Essentially military institutions where the curriculum is not sufficiently advanced to carry with it a degree, or where the average age of the students on graduation is less than 21 years. Class C-Colleges and universities (including land-grant institutions) not essentially military, where the curriculum is sufficiently advanced to carry with it a degree, and where the average age of the students on graduation is not less than 21 years. Class S M.-Institutions not included in any of the classes mentioned above. 134. Classification by War Department.-The War Department will classify all institutions and make necessary changes of classification upon receipt of the reports of the annual inspections. SECTION XI. APPOINTMENT AS OFFICERS IN THE OFFICERS' RESERVE CORPS AND THE ARMY. Appointment to Officers' Reserve Corps---. Paragraph. 135 Appointment as temporary second lieutenant in the Army---- 136 135. Appointment to Officers' Reserve Corps.-Appointment of officers in the Officers' Reserve Corps will be governed by Special Regulations No. 43 in compliance with section 49, national defense act. 136. Appointment as temporary second lieutenant in the Army. Sections 51 and 52 of the national defense act, June 3, 1916, authorize the President to appoint and commission as temporary second lieutenant of the United States Army an officer who has been commissioned in the Officers' Reserve Corps. a. The period of appointment is not to exceed six months, the officer to receive allowances now provided by the law for that grade, and pay at the rate of $100 per month. b. He will be attached to a unit of the Regular Army for duty and training during this period. c. Upon expiration of such service with the Regular Army such officer shall revert to his status as a reserve officer. d. Graduates of the R. O. T. C. who have been commissioned in the Officers' Reserve Corps and who desire to undergo a period of training not exceeding six months will make timely application for this appointment. The object of this period of training with the Regular Army is to acquaint the reserve officer with service in the Regular Army and to enable the Government to ascertain his qualifications for future promotion by thus providing a probationary period of training under the immediate supervision of officers of and with units of the Regular Army. EXTRACTS FROM NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT OF JUNE 3, 1916, AND OTHER ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS RELATING TO THE RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS. 1. EXTRACT FROM THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT OF JUNE 3, 1916. SEC. 40. THE RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS.-The President is hereby authorized to establish and maintain in civil educational institutions a Reserve Officers' Training Corps, which shall consist of a senior division organized at universities and colleges requiring four years of collegiate study for a degree, including State universities and those State institutions that are required to provide instruction in military tactics under the provisions of the act of Congress of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, donating lands for the establishment of colleges where the leading object shall be practical instruction in agriculture and the mechanic arts, including military tactics, and a junior division organized at all other public or private educational institutions, except that units of the senior division may be organized at those essentially military schools which do not confer an academic degree, but which, as a result of the annual inspection of such institutions by the War Department, are specially designated by the Secretary of War as qualified for units of the senior division, and each division shall consist of units of the several arms or corps in such number and of such strength as the President may prescribe. SEC. 41. The President may, upon the application of any State institution described in section forty of this act, establish and maintain at such institution one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps: Provided, That no such unit shall be established or maintained at any such institution until an officer of the Army shall have been detailed as professor of military science and tactics, nor until such institution shall maintain under military instruction at least one hundred physically fit male students. SEC. 42. The President may, upon the application of any established educational institution in the United States other than a State institution described in section forty of this act, the authorities of which agree to establish and maintain a two years' elective or compulsory course of military training as a minimum for its physically fit male students, which course when entered upon by any student shall, as regards such student, be a prerequisite for graduation, establish and maintain at such institution one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps: Provided, That no such unit shall be established or maintained at any such institution until an officer of the Army shall have been detailed as professor of military science and tactics, nor until such institution shall maintain under military instruction at least one hundred physically fit male students. SEC. 43. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to prescribe standard courses of theoretical and practical military training for units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and no unit of the senior division shall be organized or maintained at any educational institution the authorities of which fail or neglect to adopt into their curriculum the prescribed courses of military training for the senior division or to devote at least an average of three hours per week per academic year to such military training; and no unit of the junior division shall be organized or maintained at any educational institution the authorities of which fail or neglect to adopt into their curriculum the prescribed courses of military training for the junior |