HARVARD AND YALE FORM SUMMER BATTERY UNIT

Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont was the scene last summer of the annual six weeks' encampment of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit. Harvard and Yale men united to form a battery of field artillery under the command of Major A. V. Arnold of Yale.

The first four weeks of training were spent at the fort where the men learned the practical application of the theories learned in military science courses, and also had daily practice in equitation and maneuvers limbered and unlimbered. The unit was attached for training purposes to Battery C of the Seventh Field Artillery, a regular unit under the command of Captain Brigham.

Intensive Work at Mansfield.

After this preliminary training, the outfit spent two weeks in camp near Underhill, at the foot of Mount Mansfield. Here the work was more intensive, and consisted mainly of daily pistol and artillery firing. Conditions at camp were made to simulate actual warfare as much as possible, and culminated in an 18-mile night march without lights back to the post The training period ended with the firing of record pistol courses, in which a number of University men qualified for medals, a mounted review by the commanding officer of the post, and the awarding of commissions to a large number of Harvard and Yale students.

Not all of the time was spent in work. The battery was divided into four sections, each of which had a baseball team. A battery team was also formed, and a game played with the Norwich cavalry unit. A tennis tournament was also held, and in the July gymkhana Crocker Snow 25 won a place in the mounted hurdles. The social feature of the season was a ball given by the officers to the students at the Lake Chaplain Club.

Major Arnold was aided in his work by Major J. B. Wogan and Captain S. F. Clark of Harvard and Captain Gates of Yale.