INTENSIVE TRAINING TO COMMENCE MAY 7

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday afternoon it was decided to allow the men now in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and all those who are admitted to the Corps before April 28, to give up College work after May 7 in order to devote their entire time to intensive training. Arrangements have been made by the military office to reopen the Training Corps inside the next few days and to increase the enrolment to 2,000-men.

Special final examinations for the members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will be held from April 28 to May 5, and the men will receive such credit for their year's work as their instructors may give. Each examination will cover a period of two hours. The privilege of taking final examinations at this time is also extended to those students who are leaving the University after May 5 to serve with any of the ambulance units in France. The exact wording of the resolution as passed by the Faculty is as follows:

"Resolved: That arrangements be made whereby all students under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences now registered in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and all students under that Faculty who by April 25 have registered with the Recorder in Military Science and Tactics 1, and who are admitted to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps before April 28, may devote their full time to the work of the Corps beginning May 7.

"That for such students and for stu- dents who leave the University after May 5 to join either of the American ambulance corps in France, special final examinations of two hours each be held from April 28 to May 5.

"That for students who, in joining either of the ambulance corps in France must leave the University on or before May 5, instructors be authorized to return grades as for students enlisting in the military or naval service of the United States."

Captain Cordier made the statement last night that new enrolments for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps would begin in a few days, based on the vote of the Faculty yesterday afternoon. It is impossible to start the enlistment immediately, for certain necessary arrangements must be made before the work can be started. Due announcement of the opening of the enrolment office will be made through the CRIMSON. New men who come into the Training Corps will follow the schedule of nine hours a week now prescribed until May 7, when the entire time of all the cadets will be devoted to the training. The members now in the Training Corps who do not desire to continue in the Corps after May 7 under the intensive training scheme will be allowed to take a final examination in Military Science and Tactics 1, upon completion of which they will be discharged from the Training Corps in order that they may continue their other College studies.

Captain Cordier further stated that it was intended to increase the present Corps to 2,000 men. Special provisions are to be made for the enrolment of recent graduates of Harvard University, who, on September 1 next, will be under 32 years of age. No new men under 19 years of age will be accepted. It will be necessary for all new members of the Corps to undergo a strict physical examination by Dr. Lee, and no men who are unfit for service will be allowed to enroll. In addition, these men now in the service who are physically unable to undergo the strenuous intensive training will be honorably discharged on May 7, and they will receive such credit for their year's work, as their instructors may grant