Maryville College Bulletin [Catalog] 1906-1907 . He is taughtthe position of a soldier, the rests, facings, and salutes; then the setting-upexercises, the manual of arms, and the bayonet exercise. He is then taught 40, MARYVILLB COLLEGE. the marching movements in the squad ; then, in the School of the Com-pany, the movements in company and platoon formation, in both close andextended order; and then in the School of the Battalion, the various evolu-tions of the battalion. Exhibition drills and sham battles are given everyterm. Competitive drills in the manual of arms are held bi-weekly. At the
Maryville College Bulletin [Catalog] 1906-1907 . He is taughtthe position of a soldier, the rests, facings, and salutes; then the setting-upexercises, the manual of arms, and the bayonet exercise. He is then taught 40, MARYVILLB COLLEGE. the marching movements in the squad ; then, in the School of the Com-pany, the movements in company and platoon formation, in both close andextended order; and then in the School of the Battalion, the various evolu-tions of the battalion. Exhibition drills and sham battles are given everyterm. Competitive drills in the manual of arms are held bi-weekly. At the public exhibition in May a gold medal is awarded to the bestdrilled cadet. Winner of the medal for 1905-06: Corporal Howard BaileyPhillips. About fifty students have enrolled in the department this year. Company officers : Captain, Orrin Rankin Magill; Lieutenants, Chris-topher Van Rensselaer Rankin and Edward William Lodwick; First Ser-geant, Avery Bell; Second Sergeant, George Winfield Middleton; ThirdSergeant, Thomas Howard Callaway. ^ w o. maktville: collugi:. History. Maryville College was founded in 1819. It was born of the moral andspiritual needs of the earliest settlers of East Tennessee — chiefly Scotch-Irish Presbyterians — and was designed to educate for the ministry menwho should be native to the soil. The grand motive of the founder maybe stated in his own words: Let the Directors and Managers of thisSacred Institution propose the glory of God and the advancement ofthat kingdom purchased by the blood of his only begotten son asTHEIR SOLE OBJECT. Inspired by such a motive, Rev. Isaac Anderson, ,gathered a class of five in the fall of 1819, and in prayer and faith beganthe work of his life. In forty-two years the institution put one hundredand fifty men into the ministry. Its endowment, gathered by littles throughall these years, was only sixteen thousand dollars. Then came the Civil War, and suspended the work of the institutionfor five years, and the Coll
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