COMBAT MANEUVER AND REVIEW TODAY CLOSE R. O. T. C. ACTIVITIES FOR YEAR

At 4 o'clock this afternoon the University R. O. T. C. will carry out its last combat exercise of the term at Fresh Pond before visiting representatives of college R. O. T. C.'s who are holding a conference at the University today. The Regiment will fall in at 3.30 for the exercises. Following the maneuver there will be a regimental parade below the trenches at Fresh Pond. The workout of the corps this afternoon will be the last of the R. O. T. C. as a unit, and will serve as a final review before dissolution of the regiment for the summer.

For the exercise, the regiment will be formed into two new American companies under the command of Captains F. Parkman '19 and G. C. Barclay '19. At the appointed time the two companies will be drawn up on the road west of the Fresh Pond Reservation. They will move up to the system of trenches above Command Post Ridge and debouch in two waves to attack the enemy trenches. They will put into practice the latest methods of advancing from shell-hole to shell hole under fire as explained recently by Colonel Azan.

Immediately after the combat exercise the regimental parade will take place under the command of Captain G. A. Brownell '19, and the corps will march back to Cambridge by the usual route.

The conference of visiting military science instructors will take place this evening at 8.30 o'clock, when there will be a gathering to discuss the problems of military training in the various colleges. In spite of its unofficial nature, the conference will doubtless do much to standardize and strengthen the military work now being done in the colleges and thus lead to greater effectiveness in the preparation of men for national service. Delegates have been sent by the College of the City of New York, Connecticut Agricultural, Johns Hopkins, Rhode Island State, Rutgers, the University of Maine and Wesleyan. Others have been invited and are expected from Bowdoin, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Williams.

Preceding the conference there will be a reception of the visiting instructors at Military Headquarters between 2 and 3 o'clock. The delegates will then inspect the trenches at Fresh Pond prior to the maneuver. At 7 o'clock there will be a dinner at the Harvard Club in Boston, followed by a reception by class secretaries.