NEW MILITARY COURSES

At the Military Science 2 lecture last evening, Major Flynn announced that from the beginning of the mid-year period until the close of the April recess, all lectures for the advanced course will be discontinued, and in their stead three parallel courses will be given. Every cadet in Military Science 2 will be compelled to take one of these three, but he may choose whichever one he wants. The three subjects offered are Military Engineering, Topography and Administration.

Arthur Lyman Williston, president of the Wentworth Institute, will have charge of the engineering course. It was largely due to his efforts that this schedule of courses was formulated. He is at present preparing a detailed plan of the work which will be published shortly.

The topographical course will be directed by Professor J. E. Wolff, and the administration one by Captain Professor W. M. Cole.

In an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, Mr. Williston emphasized the necessity of engineering knowledge. "This war," he said, "is so different in its use of machinery and mechanical equipment from other wars that it becomes important for every officer to have at least a superficial knowledge of the commonest military engineering matters. As an illustration of this, every West Point graduate is a technically trained man. Members of the R. O. T. C., if fortunate, are going to get ranks similar to those of West Point graduates and you can appreciate the importance of at least a slight familiarity with the kinds of problems at which men in the engineering corps must be expert."