CORPS TOTALS 750 MEN

With a total enrolment approximating 750 and three battalions instead of two now assured, the military courses will begin work tomorrow. A gain of more than 100 during the preceding 48 hours shows the excellent work of the Recruiting Committee. Today the campaign is to be continued more strenuously with a view to reaching every student in or out of Cambridge in order that expectations of President Lowell and other University authorities in regard to the courses may be fulfilled. To differentiate members of the corps from those not yet enrolled, and to assist in the recruiting, buttons are soon to be distributed to those in the military courses.

To dispel whatever misunderstanding may have arisen through lack of information in regard to the attitude of the Committee on the choice of electives towards the course, the following statement has been authorized by Military Headquarters:

"Where men find it necessary to drop a subject before enrolling in either military course, they must, if possible, drop a free elective, and not a course that is essential to their plan of distribution and concentration. In cases where this is impossible, and a course must be dropped that is needed to complete the proper distribution and concentration, students should at once petition the Secretary on Electives for permission to substitute Military Science 1 or 2 for such course. This privilege has been granted in nearly every instance. In cases of doubt, Mr. Edgell should be consulted personally."

Announcement was made Saturday by Professor Wolff of the program to be followed in the department of military topography.

Lectues will be given in Military Science 2 by Professors H. L. Smyth, W. W. Atwood, and others on such subjects as the making of topographical maps, the interpretation of such maps in relation to soils, subsoils, rock structures, and underground water, and the topography and surface geology of Northern France. Of most interest, will be a series of lectures on photographic surveying, including surveying from aeroplanes. Practical work in the field, the reading of maps, and the study of models will be undertaken in connection with the lectures. In the elementary course, the first principles of the construction and use of topographic maps, with special reference to military requirements, will be taught, followed by work in the field on a flat and a position sketch, with the traverse board and simple instruments