STUDENTS URGED TO TRAIN FOR SERVICE AS OFFICERS

A circular is being sent to all graduates and undergraduates of the University in Cambridge by Professor R. M. Johnston, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, urging them to use their special abilities in case of war rather than enlist as a private. This leaflet will to some extent take the place of the census that has been taken in other colleges. It advises all men to endeavor to qualify as officers rather than enlist as privates. Men of special training are to use that training in case of war. The circular enumerated some of the branches in which expert knowledge will be required.

The full text of the leaflet follows:

"The following recommendations are issued for all Harvard graduates and undergraduates anxious to serve the Government in case of war.

"1. Rather than enlist as a private, try to qualify as an officer of the line, or as a specialist.

"2. The Reserve Officers' Training Corps offers the best means for qualifying as a second lieutenant. For information apply to Captain C. Cordier, U. S. A., University Hall, Cambridge.

"3. The following are branches in which expert knowledge will be of service: Aviation, Business Administration (quartermaster), Chemistry, Dentistry, Divinity (chaplains), Engineering, En- tomology (camp pests, etc.), Law (Judge Advocate General's Department), Medicine and Surgery, Metallurgy, Meteorology, etc., Navigation, Sanitation, Seismology, Telegraphy and Wireless, Topography (under U. S. Geological Survey, War Department Division), Transportation, Veterinary Science. In addition it may be suggested that business men of good experience in handling problems of supply, transportation, labor, etc., are well suited to enter the Quartermaster's Corps.

"4. The value of most specialists will be much enhanced by their taking a military course, so that they may acquire the rudiments and especially the vocabulary of the military profession.

"5. It is recommended that specialists shall offer their services through their own Schools and Departments. The University Committee on Military Affairs is in correspondence with a central Committee at Washington and will, so far as possible, refer applications from this Committee to the Departments concerned.

"6. For registration blanks, except for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, apply at 2 University Hall.