The rank of students, leaving the College, is determined by the certificate of the Principal, which is granted with reference to the industry, proficiency, and general good behaviour of the students. Such rank to take effect only in the event of the students proceeding to India within six months after they are so ranked. TERMS OF ADMISSION FOR STUDENTS. One hundred guineas per annum, for each student; a moiety whereof to be paid at the commencement of each term, there being two in the year, besides the expense of books and stationery. Students to provide themselves with a table-spoon, teaspoon, knife and fork, half-a-dozen towels, tea equipage, and a looking-glass; also, with not less than two pair of sheets, two pillow-cases, and two breakfast-cloths. Ten guineas to be paid on leaving College by each student, for the use of the philosophical apparatus and library. COLLEGE TERMS. 1st commences 19th Jan. and ends 30th June In each year. 2d ditto 10th Sept. and ends 15th Dec... N.B. The Students are to provide themselves with proper Academical Habits. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MILITARY SEMINARY, Addiscombe House, near Croydon, Surrey. TERMS OF ADMISSION. 1. No Candidate can be admitted under the age of fourteen, or above the age of eighteen, years. 2. No person can be admitted who has been dismissed, or obliged to retire, from the army or navy, the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, or from any other public institution. 3. Every candidate must produce a certificate of his birth, taken from the parish register, and signed by the minister and countersigned by the churchwardens, or, if born in Scotland, by the sessions' clerk and two elders, accompanied by a declaration from his father, mother, or nearest of kin, the forms of which may be had at the Cadet Office in the military department. In the event of there being no register of his birth or baptism, the candidate will be furnished with the form of a declaration to be taken by him previously to his being appointed. 4. No candidate will be admitted without a certificate that he has had the small-pox, or has been vaccinated; nor without a certificate, in the prescribed form, to be given by two practising surgeons, that he has no mental or bodily defect whatever to disqualify him for military service. 5. Every candidate must produce a certificate of good conduct from the master under whom he last studied. 6. Every candidate must deliver the names and addresses of two persons residing in London, or its vicinity, who engage to receive him if he shall be dismissed from the Seminary, or removed from sickness, or any other cause. 7. It is an indispensable qualification that the candidate write a good legible hand. He will be required to write down a sentence from dictation by the head master; and if he should be found deficient in his handwriting, or in his orthography, his reception into the institution will be deferred for such length of time as the head master shall report to be necessary. 8. No candidate will be admitted who cannot read and construe Cæsar's Commentaries. 9. No candidate will be admitted who shall not be found to possess a correct knowledge of all the rules of arithmetic usually taught in schools, especially the Rule of Three, Compound Proportion, Practice, Interest, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, and the Extraction of the Square Root. 10. Every Cadet upon his admission is considered a Probationary pupil for the first six months, at the end of which period the public examiner will be required to report to the military committee, on the probability of the Cadet being able to pass for the artillery or infantry in the required period of four terins. Should this appear improbable, either from want of talent or diligence, the Cadet will then be returned to his friends. The qualifications specified in the preceding test (Articles 7, 8, and 9) are all that are absolutely requisite for the admission of a Cadet into the Military Seminary. Parents and guardians are however informed, that it will be of great advantage to a Cadet in his future studies at this establishment if, before being admitted, he make himself well acquainted with the following portions of Cape's "Course of Mathematics," in the order in which they are given below, viz.— 1. The remainder of arithmetic, omitting pages 76, 77. 2. The use of logarithms. 3. The first three sections in geometry, and the theory of proportion. 4. First part of algebra, omitting the propositions on the greatest common measure, and the least common multiple. 5. Fourth and fifth sections in geometry, and geometrical problems. It is also very desirable that a Cadet, on joining the Seminary, be able to draw with facility in pencil, and shade with Indian ink. PAYMENTS, &c. 1. The parents or guardians of the gentleman Cadet are required to pay £50 per term towards defraying the expense of his board, lodging, and education, also an entrance subscription of £2 2s. to the public library; which payments include every charge except for uniform clothes, books, and pocket-money, as hereafter specified. 2. Such articles of uniform dress* as may be considered by the military committee to be necessary, shall be provided at the cost of the Cadet. The amount of pocket-money issued to him, at the ratest fixed by the rules of the Seminary, is also to be defrayed by his parents or guardians. 3. The following class books will be provided at the public expense, the mutilation or destruction of which to be chargeable to the Cadets, viz. 4. The Cadets will, on their first joining Addiscombe, be supplied with the following books, the cost of which will be charged to their parents or guardians, viz. Any books not included in the above enumeration, or Viz Jackets, Waistcoats, Stocks, Foraging Caps, Trowsers. Shoes, Gloves, together with a proportionate share of the expense of any other periodical supplies, and the repairs of the same. The average cost is £6 6s per term. +Viz. 2s. 6d. a week, with 1s. additional to Censors, and 2s. 6d. additional to Corporals. which may be hereafter required at the Seminary, to be paid for by the Cadets. 5. A Cadet entering in a term, at whatever part of it, must pay the regulated sum for the whole term in which he enters, which will count as one of the four terms of his residence; and no return of any portion of the advance will be made in the event of a Cadet quitting the Seminary. 6. Previous to the Cadet's admission, his parents or guardians shall furnish him with the following articles, viz. Two combs and a brush, Twelve shirts (including three night-shirts), Eight pairs of cotton stock ings, Six ditto worsted ditto, Six night-caps, Eight pocket-handkerchiefs, One pair of white trowsers, A tooth-brush, A Bible and Prayer-book, N.B.-To be repaired, or, if necessary, to be renewed by the parents or guardians, at the vacation. 7. The payment of the fixed charges for each term is to be made in advance; and the payment for clothes, pocketmoney, and books for the preceding term, is to be made previous to the Cadet's return to the Seminary. Prohibition. The Cadet must not join the Seminary with a greater sum in his possession than one guinea, and a further supply from any of his relations during his term may subject him to dismissal from the Seminary. Vacations.-Midsummer commences about the middle of June, ends 31st July; Christmas commences about the middle of December, ends 31st January. At the close of every vacation, the Cadet must apply at the Cadet Office, Military Department, East India House, for an order for his re-admission, and all sums then due to the Company must be paid up. This order will express that he is only to be re-admitted upon his returning with the same number of books and instruments which he took with him, that his linen is put into proper repair, and that he is in a fit state of health to renew his studies. NOTICE TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. The friends of every Cadet are hereby informed, that provision being made for furnishing him with every requisite, he cannot really want a supply of money to be placed at his disposal while at the Seminary; and if they do notwithstanding think proper to furnish him with money, they put it in his power to commit irregularities, which must always retard his studies, and may eventually lead to his removal from the Institution. The parents and friends are further particularly desired not to attend to any application from the Cadet for money, under the pretence of his having incurred any debts at Croydon, or elsewhere, or for the purpose of subscribing to the public charities, or on any other pretence whatever. It having become known that Cadets have been in the habit of writing to their friends for money, under the pretence that there were so many stoppages from their weekly allowance, that they had scarcely any money left, the Committee have ascertained that these stoppages have arisen, not only from wilful and wanton destruction of public property, but in a considerable degree from the postage of letters and the carriage of parcels addressed to the Cadets. It has in consequence been ordered, that no letter or parcel shall be admitted into the Seminary unless the postage or carriage of such letter or parcel shall have been previously fully paid for by the person sending the same. It has also been ordered, that every parcel shall be opened in the presence of one of the Orderly Officers and the Cadet to whom it is sent; that should it contain wine, or anything prohibited in the Regulations, the parcel, upon the first offence, will be returned to the person sending the same; and that upon the second offence, the Cadet will be ordered home, and will not be re-admitted until a written apology has been sent to the Committee by the person who has committed a breach of this Regulation. Extract from the Standing Regulations of the Seminary, Sec. 1, Clause 1. "No professor, master, or other person in the Institution, shall receive from the Cadet, or the parents or friends of any Cadet, any pecuniary present or consideration on any pretence whatever." By resolutions of the Court of Directors, dated on the 14th March, 1786; 8th April, 1807; 30th August, 1826; and 8th January, 1836; all Cadets appointed to the Company's service in Bengal, are required to become subscribers to the Military Orphan Society, and to the Military Widows' Fund, at that Presidency. By a resolution of the Court of Directors, dated on the |
