New Britain herald., 1917-08-14
C0N|fF STUDENT OF
 NAVAL AER0NAUTICS
Lincoln Street Young Man Tak-
 ing Course at M. 1. I.

Edward J. Coniff of 100 Lincoln
 street, this city, is registered today at
 the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
 nology for special work in naval aero
 nautics. government school for
 which has just been opened at the in-
 stitute. MT. Coniff is one of 50 naval
 cadets in his group, other groups of
 equal size being due to register each
 week for about six weeks, as assigned
 by the navy.
 The courses will extend over eight
 weeks under the naval and technology
 instructors, and will include naval
 specialties and work in mechanical and naval engineering. The former
 will include navy regulations, naviga- tion, seamanship, and boat drill un- der Lieutenant McKetterick and his petty naval officers, while the infantry drill. signalling and mechanical work will be under the technology men. The commanding officer of the school is Lieut.. E. H. McKitterick, U. S. N., and his petty officers are B. E. Reber, chief boatswain's mate; w. B. Carlton and A. Ward, chief gunners mates; and J. M. Bennett,
 chief quartermaster's mate. The aca- demic faculty is headed by Prof. c. H. Peabody director of the department l of Naval Architecture at Tech. The military training including evolutions and drill on Techs superb athletic l field, is under the charge of Leicester 1 F. Hamilton, "A, assistant in Military l Science at the institute and cadet 1 Captain Harold E. Collins, IT, who has been in company command in 1 the military camp of the juniors now 1 just closed. The calisthenics which form an important part of the work
 will be cared for by the regular staff
 of Technology in Physical Training,
 Frank M. Randy directing.
 ] The young men are bearthed in one of the students drawing rooms in the l educational building and shortly will | be placed in the Walker Memorial, the all-Technology clubhouse now ap- proa ching completion. They are fed l in the Institute cafeteria, which is now caring for a thousand persons at l each meal under the direction of l Mrs. Helen E. Mclean. The spacious l class rooms and laboratories are at 1 the disposal of the naval aviators in- 1 cluding the famous wind tunnel six l feet square in section and the supple l mentary balance. For boat practice, l the situation of the institute on the 1 bank of the Charles river basin, will
 afford an opportunity for practice on enclosed water of some square mile area.
 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has already had in opera l ton a cadet school for military aero nautics for a couple of months, and ] in the establishment of the present
 one for naval aeronauts has patterned d 1 along similar lines. The military l men, however. spend the first three weeks in nothing but military drill. Here the naval aviators differ since they begin theoretical work imme- diately on entering the school.
 l There will be eight weeks of inten- sive study at the Institute and then 1 the young men will be sent to some 1 of the naval flying schools and after ] practice in the air at them will be ready for service as assistants in air planes of one kind or another
 The cadet school of Naval Aeronau- tics is the eleventh special school un- 1 dertaken by the institute since May ] to prepare it's students and other stu- dents sent to 1t by the government for work in relation to the war Mr. Conif is graduate of the New lr6