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3. Cadet-Schools. 
For the general scientific training of future officers, there are 
in Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony a number of Cadet-schools. Three 
of them are higher educational institutions, with boarding establish- 
ments, and with the curriculum of the Realgymnasia, combined with 
military practice. The pupils can withdraw at any time, and have 
in that case the qualificatations attached to the class through which 
they have passed. On finishing the upper secunda (the third highest 
class), all the cadets have to present themselves for the ensign 
examination, and when successful, they can enter either the active 
military service, or the prima (the highest class), so as afterwards 
to pass the final examination; this latter alternative has certain ad- 
vantages combined with it. In addition to the two highest classes 
‘upper and lower prima), the chief institution for cadets in Gross- 
lichterfelde has also an extra class, which is arranged as a military 
school. There are also several military schools forming independent 
mstitutions, and all ensigns must complete a nine months’ course in 
one of these, and pass a further examination, before they can be 
promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Besides the chief institution for 
cadets in Grosslichterfelde (near Berlin), there are in Prussia eight 
preparatory institutions with classes sexta to upper tertia, whereas in 
the chief institution are found also the middle and upper classes. 
The number of pupils in the chief institution is 1000, in the pre- 
paratory institutions altogether 2470. There is free schooling for 135 
pupils, and* besides a large number of vacancies with very small 
payments of fees. The teaching staff consists partly of officers, 
partly of civil instructors. The total expenditure of the Prussian 
Cadet-schools, according to the estimates of 1903/04, amounted to 
3109392 M. The Bavarian Cadet-School in Munich has 210, the 
one in Saxony, in Dresden, 226 pupils who pay no fees. 
Only a minority of officers, however, proceed from the Cadet- 
schools. For the admission to the ensign examination it suffices if 
the candidate has passed successfully through the lower prima (the 
second highest class) of any secondary school. 
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