COMMISSION IN FIELD ARTILLERY AWAITS STUDENT R.O.T.C. MAN

Returning veterans who cast an interested eye at the Field Artillery commissions offered by the College's newly revived ROTC unit get special attention from Colonel Mark McClure, head of the Military Science Department and until recently a Brigadier General in command of the 95th Division artillery in France and Germany.

Mil. Sci. 3a, starting this term, will be the first course of the advanced training program to be given since the full four year curriculum was broken up in 1942, leaving those who took the two year basic course with no prospect of earning reserve commissions.

Course Counts Toward Degree

The four full courses offered by the Military Sciences Department count toward the College degree and are taken on the basis of a four-year residence. A regular three hours a week are allotted to class room work, while Freshmen and Sophomores may check the two-hour weekly drill off against their required exercise.

Basic requirements for veterans of the Army, Navy, Marines, or Coast Guard may be omitted wholly or in part, with six months active service the equivalent of one year basic ROTC and with more than a year's service entitling one to enter directly into the advanced course.

Two Academic Years Required

Eligibility for advanced officer training is restricted to applicants between 19 and 26 years of age who are physically fit, and at least two academic years in the College are required to get a commission as well as a degree.

For advanced enrollees only, a 65-cent-a-day garrison ration will be paid, an "officer-type" uniform will be supplied with overcoat and shoes, and exemption from the provisions of the Selective Service Act will be guaranteed.

All students in the advanced course will be civilians "under contract with the government" and must agree, first, "unless sooner discharged for the convenience of the government, to complete the advanced course," and second, "to attend a summer training camp at the time specified by proper authority."

Colonel McClure, who recently replaced Colonel Thomas Q. Donaldson, Jr., as head of the Harvard Unit, is available from 8:30 to 5 o'clock daily at the Department of Military Science and Tactics, 60 Boylston Street.