Intensive ARP Course Offered in One Night

Faced with a drastic shortage of adequately trained men for ARP activities at Harvard, the officers of the War Service Committee and Phillips Brooks House have appealed to Clarence E. Walton, State Director of Education and Training for the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, to offer an intensive one lecture course, March 2 at 7:30 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall.

The course will be an intensive survey of the latest methods available for ARP work, and although no national certificate will be granted to those who attend the lecture, they will be fully equipped to serve as Harvard wardens. This represents a compromise between the full warden's course which leads to a certificate, and the duties of entrymen who often have little or no training.

War Strikes

The war has struck deeply into the ranks of the meagre corps of trained Harvard wardens, with a majority already departed and many more signifying their intention to leave. On the other hand there are approximately 50 men who have signed, up for the duties of entry wardens in each House but have not yet taken any real training.

Therefore the course will be aimed primarily at those men who have been engaged in ARP activities but who have not yet taken any course. New men, especially those from the Class of '46 upon whose heads the system of Air Raid Precautions at Harvard will soon largely rest, are also urged to attend. Old wardens are also asked to attend this meeting as a refresher course.

It is expected that the lecture will represent the very latest news from the ARP front, especially the answer to the controversy over the spray or jet method of dealing with incendiary bombs. Fire-fighting, explosives, and gas will also be treated in the intensified course. If this unique lecture is successful the audience should have a firm foundation for future ARP activities.