Naval Science Juniors Will Cruise on Destroyers Through West Indies for Two Weeks--Others Ship on "Arkansas"

Full particulars of this year's summer cruise of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps were released Saturday by Captain B. B. Wygant, professor of Naval Science and Tactics. According to the announcement, contrary to all past custom there will be two separate cruises, one for Juniors in Harvard College and one for all other students who are taking courses in the Naval Science Department and wish to go.

Students in the naval units of Yale. Georgia Tech, and Northwestern Universities will participate in the same cruises. The ships will visit either Bermuda or the West Indies on the trip.

The Juniors of all four universities will be quartered in a group of four destroyers, the Tillman, Evans, Philip, and Fairfax. All Harvard Juniors will be on the U. S. S. Tillman, which will leave Boston on June 20 and return on July 3. The other destroyers will sail from New Haven and Hampton Roads, Virginia, a few days later.

The four destroyers will cruise together and thus will offer possibilities of maneuvering which have never been available before. In all former years all of the men have sailed on battleships, but this year, due to the effect of the London Naval Conference, only one battleship will be available and this will be used for the other undergraduates taking the cruise.

The other students from Yale and Harvard who are taking the cruise will sail from Boston August 27 on the battleship Arkausas. The students from Georgia Tech and Northwestern will sail two days later from Hampton Roads on the same boat. The ship will then travel to West Indian waters and after a stay of four days in some port will return to Boston on September 16.

The purpose of the two cruises is to familiarize students of naval science with the actual workings of the United States Navy. In addition to practice in navigating the men receive training in gunnery and radio signaling. They are also permitted to stand watch in the engine, dynamo, and fire rooms.