Fine Arts Department Gives Camouflage Defense Course

Contribution of the Fine Arts Department to Harvard's expanding defense program, a course on camouflage will be presented at the Fogg Art Museum during the second semester. complete and official announcement of the course will appear in the pamphlet on all the University's defense courses, scheduled to be distributed some day this week.

Winthrop O. Judkins '34, instructor in Fine Arts, is in charge of the new course, which will teach the latest methods of camouflage in all its phases and the contiguous phases of civilian defence. It will involve painting, drafting, and model-making.

Approval of the course has been voiced by the Passive Defense Project in Boston, whose function is the study of camouflage, under the supervision of the Camouflage Department of the Engineer Corps, U.S. Army at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

This course nips in the bud a laboratory for "deceptive illusion" conceived by the Department of Architecture last month, which was to be a cooperative effort of students trained in design and which was to find ways to deceive enemy bombers by illusion rather than by camouflage as practiced in Would War I.