UNDERGRADUATE COLLECTION FOR FLYING CORPS PLANNED

In order to raise funds for the University Flying Corps, plans for a canvass of all undergraduates interested in this branch of preparedness work have been made. Dormitory collectors will be appointed and a thorough canvass made. It is desired to raise a sum of at least $2,500--a sum sufficient to pay the rent of a flying field for one year. The principal expenses of the Corps will be met by graduates, but a certain amount of pecuniary support is expected from the undergraduates. Before the end of the week the Corps will mail to 20,000 graduates a pamphlet telling the purpose, plans, expenses, and constitution of the organization, and carrying an appeal for money.

Several fields on Long Island suitable for aeroplane instruction and practice are now under consideration. One of these is one mile in length by one-half mile in width.

Supplementary to the lectures on aeronautical construction and navigation which are now being held at the Corps Headquarters, 1280 Massachusetts avenue, every Monday evening, an instructive trip will shortly be taken through the B. F. Sturtevant aeroplane factories. Ex-Governor Eugene Noble Foss, owner of the plant, has invited Flying Corps members to visit the aeroplane factory at Jamaica Plain and the motor construction shop at Hyde Park.

The United States Navy will do all in its power to help the Flying Corps, according to a letter just received by the Commanding Officer, Frazier Curtis '98, from Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Roosevelt's letter reads as follows:

"I am very glad to hear of the formation of the Harvard Flying Corps and shall be glad to represent the navy as a member of its honorary staff. I feel sure that much good can be accomplished by the organization of the corps and I shall do everything possible to give you the co-operation of the navy people."