SCHEDULE EMPHASIZES PRACTICAL TRAINING

Next term's schedule of training for the R. O. T. C. will be notable for a centralization in practical work rather than for a continuation of the rather intensive theoretical instruction that has marked the military courses during the winter. Plans for the work to be undertaken by the University corps after the spring recess were announced by the Headquarters Office yesterday. The dates upon which the different battalions will go to Wakefield for range practice were made known, as well as a general schedule of the practical training to be done regularly by the entire regiment. Morning drill will be continued by companies for at least one hour a week and will, for the first part of the term, be concerned chiefly with bayonet practice and subcalibre gallery work.

The three battalions have been scheduled to hold their field target practice on the Naval Range at Wakefield on the following week-ends:

1st Battalion, April 27.

2nd Battalion, May 4.

3d Battalion, May 11.

On these trips the men will, according to the present plans, travel to Wakefield by trolley on Friday afternoons. There they will be provided with quarters in the Range houses or in tentage supplied by the Naval Reserve Force. The rifle practice will commence early Saturday morning, in each case, and will be continued on Sunday morning if necessary in order to complete the course. The men will then march back to Cambridge on Sunday afternoon.

Lectures at Wakefield Range.

During these trips at Wakefield the members of Military Science 2 will act as instructors on the firing line and as markers in the target pits. Talks will be arranged for the men on Friday and Saturday evenings, when Lieutenant-Colonel Blake, M. S. G., and the gunnery sergeants at the range, will instruct the cadets in the proper methods of using and caring for the United States military rifle.

Field exercises at the manoeuver grounds at Fresh Pond, Belmont, and Waverley will play an important part in the training during the spring term. Such drills will be held regularly, every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. In order to promote as efficient execution as possible in these exercises the corps will receive maps and plans of the manoeuver before leaving for the actual practice of the problem. Moreover, some of the usual lecture periods of the winter schedule will be replaced during the spring training, by critiques held under Lieutenant Morize's supervision on the manoeuver grounds immediately after the execution of the exercises.

Field Day May 18.

The Field Day for the entire corps will be held on May 18, as previously planned. At that time the men will compete in intercompany and interbattalion sports of a more or less military nature. The day's exercises will close with a parade