SQUANTUM NAVAL AVIATION SCHOOL NEARLY COMPLETED

So many applications have been received for the Aviation Section of the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps that it has been found necessary to change the age requirements. Now the age limit is such that only men between the ages of 21 and 30 may apply. In accordance with this modification many members of the University who had expected to join the service are now ineligible.

These men, however, can apply for admission to the naval reserve aviation school, which has been opened to members of the University and is being rapidly completed as the age limit in that service is confined to men between the ages of 18 and 24.

The field at Squantum will probably be ready for use in about two weeks, and hangars are already being built to house the four new machines which have been ordered. On account of the thoroughness of the preparation which the prospective flyers will receive, only about 80 men will be accepted for the training this summer at Squantum. The school will handle 20 students in flying and ten in mechanics at one time, and four classes will probably be graduated during the summer. The school at which the men will live will be run on a military basis and under strict discipline. Board and lodging will be provided, but no uniforms are required or furnished. Upon graduation application may be made for a provisional commission as ensign in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps, and after three months' provisional service, the student will be rated.

Tech. Course Recommended to Entrants.

It is recommended that all members of the University who expect to join this school should take the new course in aviation given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Professor Klemin. Additional information may be obtained by members of the University interested in flying at Room 940, Old South Building, any week-day between 11 and 4 o'clock.