The requirements of this course are as follows:
Construction of the language; reading and writing Spanish; dictation; translation (written and oral) of English into Spanish and Spanish into English; oral recitations and conversation; themes.
Instruction in the Spanish language begins March 1 of the second-class year and is completed June 4 of the first-class year. Examinations thereon will be held at the June examination, second-class year, and at the December and June examinations of the first-class year. The course comprises about one hundred and eighty-three lessons.
French Pronunciation. De Peiffer. Treatise on the Conjugation of French Verbs. Castarède. Elementary French. Aldrich and Foster. La Langue Française. Première Partie. Bercy. Le Petit Parisien. Kron.
Martin’s French Verbs. Elementary French. Aldrich and Foster. Introductory French Composition, Francois. Guerlac’s Standard French Authors. Advanced French Prose Composition, Francois. Potter’s Dix Contes Modernes. French Verbs and Prepositions, Idioms, Letters. Cameron’s Tales of France. Marchand’s French Idioms. Revue Militaire des Armées Étrangères. Labiche and Martin’s Voyage de M. Perrichon. Courrier des Etats-Unis (Sunday edition). Le Petit Parisien. Kron.
Spanish Verb and Spanish Pronunciation. Traub. Spanish Grammar. Monsanto and Languellier. Spanish Grammar. Garner. El Castellano Actual. Román y Salamero. Las Novedades. First Spanish Book. Worman. Elementary Spanish Reader. Ramsey.
French Pronouncing Dictionary. Spiers and Surenne. Military Technical Dictionary. Willcox.
New Spanish-English and English-Spanish Dictionary, by Cuyás. Appleton.
The course in law covers the following subjects:
1. The elements of law. 2. Constitutional law. 3. International law. 4. Military law.
To illustrate principles in the text-books cadets are required to recite on numerous cases from reports. Lectures are also given upon the subjects taught, so far as the limits of time allotted to this course permit.
The Elements of Law. Davis, G. B. Constitutional Law. Davis, E. G. International Law. Davis, G. B. Military Law. Dudley.
There is a reference library in the department of about 2,500 volumes, accessible to the cadets.
DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL MILITARY ENGINEERING.