Instruction is given in reading, in composition, and in conversation. The course opens September 1st, and continues until June 4th, some 219 lessons in all. SPANISH SECOND AND FIRST CLASSES Instruction is given in reading, in composition, and in conversation, to which special attention is paid. The course opens October 4th, of the second-class year and closes June 4th of the first-class year, 176 lessons all told. The present textbooks are: THIRD CLASS French:--Martin’s French Verbs. Grammar. Essentials of French, François. Elements of French Pronunciation, Jacobs. Bercy’s La Langue Française. Introductory French Prose Composition, François. Mérimée’s Colomba. About’s Roi des Montagnes. Marchand’s French Idioms. L’Illustration. Lecture pour Tous. Labiche and Martin’s Voyage de M. Perrichon. Daudet’s Lettres de Mon Moulin. Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. Pattou’s Causeries en France. French Conversation Exercises. Military Reading. Dupont’s En Campagne. SECOND AND FIRST CLASS Spanish:--Spanish Grammar, Olmsted and Gordon. A Spanish Reader, Bramby. Crawford’s Spanish Composition. A Trip to South America--Waxman. Por Esos Mundos, monthly, published in Madrid. “A B C,” Spanish Daily Newspaper. Spanish Conversation and Idioms, Department of Modern Languages, U. S. M. A. Scientific and Technical Spanish Reader, Willcox. Lecturas Modernas--Charles Alfred Downer. BOOKS OF REFERENCE French:--Cassell’s French Dictionary. Military Technical Dictionary. Willcox. Spanish:--New Spanish-English and English-Spanish Dictionary, by Cuyás. Appleton. DEPARTMENT OF LAW FIRST CLASS The course in law, which is carried throughout the entire first-class year, embraces the following subjects: 1. Elementary Law. 2. Constitutional Law. 3. International Law. 4. Military Law. 5. The Law of War. The quiz method of instruction is employed in the section room. The authorized textbooks are supplemented from time to time by means of lectures, and important principles are emphasized by requiring an examination and analysis of a considerable number of leading cases. Some time is also devoted to library work, with a view to familiarizing students with the use of a law library in the solution of practical questions. The purpose in view in the course is to give the student an elementary knowledge of the fundamental principles of law, with special emphasis upon those subjects a knowledge of which is essential to the proper understanding of his obligations and duties as a citizen and as an officer of the Army. TEXTBOOKS Elements of Law. Davis, G. B. International Law. Davis, G. B. Constitutional Law. Davis, E. G. Military Law. Dudley. BOOKS OF REFERENCE The department has a law library of about 2,500 volumes, accessible to cadets. DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL MILITARY ENGINEERING, MILITARY SIGNALING AND TELEGRAPHY