Plan For Squam Lake Training Camp Flops

Because of the delay in its announcement last spring, the special course for men in the R.O.T.C. or interested in military work, which the University was to sponsor in conjunction with the Engineering Department, did not gain enough support to warrant its being established last summer.

Using the same extensive University-owned tract of land at Squam Lake, New Hampshire on which Engineering Sciences 4 is regularly held during the summer months after Commencement, the militarized engineering course was to have included surveying and map reading with parts of R.O.T.C. courses and a program of military drill.

Sort of Military Camp

This past summer, enrollees in Engineering Sci. 4 did theoretical plane surveying work on the Squam Lake site as usual, but missed out on the National Defense angle which the University sought to include at the last minute.

Open to Juniors and Seniors only, who would be required to pay about $60 matched by another $100 from the administration, the project would have assumed the atmosphere of a selective service camp except that the mental training in mapping and map-reading would have rivaled the physical work of drilling.

In spite of last spring's belated effort, the sponsors of the program hope for its future success, since the specialized training would help a prospective draftee, and since the lakeside location of the camp itself offers attractions.