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1900. Weight assigned each subject. Table for 20‑year periods.1
1820 |
1840 |
1860 |
1880 |
1900 |
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Engineering | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
Natural Philosophy | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
Mathematics | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 |
Drawing | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.25 |
French | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 |
Chemistry | 1.5 | 1.5 | |||
Mineralogy and Geology | 2.0 | 1.5 | 0.75 | 2.25 | |
Tactics: | |||||
Infantry |
1.5 | ||||
Artillery |
1.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.75 | |
Cavalry |
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Conduct | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.25 | ||
English: | |||||
Ethics |
0.5 | ||||
Geography |
0.5 | ||||
History |
1.0 | ||||
English |
0.5 | ||||
Rhetoric |
2.0 | ||||
Ethics |
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Law |
1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
Logic |
1.0 | ||||
Law |
1.0 | ||||
Grammar |
1.0 | ||||
Ordnance | 1.0 | ||||
Gunnery | 1.0 | 1.0 | |||
Spanish | 1.0 | 0.75 | 0.85 | ||
Practical Engineering | 0.45 | ||||
Military Efficiency | 1.30 | ||||
Military Deportment | 0.20 |
1 Report of Colonel T. E. Tillman in Centennial, U. S. M. A., Vol. I, p232.
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