V-12 Contingent of 700 to Join Service Schools Here on July 1st

Harvard's full wartime schedule will start off with a bang on July 1 as about-700 reserve apprentice seamen are activated at the College. All these men will be under the V-12 program under Captain George N. Barker, USN, head of all Navy Training Schools here. The group will include members of the Naval Reserve Officers Training program, long a fixture at the College, former V-1, V-7, and V-5 members including a large number of pre-medical students, and new Freshmen accepted to V-12 while in secondary school.

Although most of the men will be from Harvard, a large group will be sent from a score of other colleges. Of the 117 pre-medical students about 93, according to present figures, will come from Harvard, with a delegation of 23 from Johns Hopkins.

Among the regular V-12 officer candidates, numbering at present 304, there will be 191 Harvard men and 113 transfers, with the largest groups from Boston University. Northeastern and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Almost all of the group is from nearby institutions, except a small number from the Case School of Engineering in Cleveland.

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Not much new information has been released about the details of the setup. Except for the NROTC all the men will be uniformed as apprentice seamen third class. Their textbooks will be issued by the Navy through the University, although this allotment will probably only include standard texts.

'The daily schedule will be designed to "keep them busy," but due to the many different courses taken the V-12ers will not marcir to classes in groups. All the regular V-12ers will be barracked in Eliot House, while the NROTC and some premeds will be put in Kirkland.

In charge of the program, under Captain Barker, will be Lieutenant Edward Hodnett, USNR, who has just arrived at Harvard. He will work with the staff of Navy Sci already here and with the officers of the University, who have been in very close conjunction with the Navy in the organization of the new school.