New Britain herald., 1918-02-20
|ALE'S CAMP FOR
 FIELD ARTILLERY
Three Year Military Course to Open Next Fall

M New Haven, Feb. 2O.--For over Awo years Yale University has been Building up school of field artillery. l8n view of the presence of battery Mf FTench 75-mm. guns and an artil- 8ery armory and a hall for sub-cali- 8er practice, it is not surprising that aAhe faculties of the undergraduate
 schools have now decided to create
 M three year military course to begin & ext fall and to continue while the 8 ar continues to fit men specifically
 abr commissions in the artillery @ This is the decision reached logic 18lly % meet q growing demand. The
 kourse, which has been carefully "a orked out, will carry the student
 hrough the theory and practice of Meld artillery up to the point where @ final course of training at Re- Nerve Officers Training Corps will '
 @ @ake of the successful candidate an
 eptionally well prepared officer. @ In the meantime the insistence up- ~ an intensifcation of the present
 bursG has been promptly met by al- Ewing the undergraduate enrolled in
 he R. O. T. c. to drop three more &purs a week of his regular work CN ''NNN'
 ry work. It is, of course, impos- Zble to put into immediate effect the #ew course.
 @ The evolution of the Yale R. o. T. @ has been rather striking. Field &tillery training became d fixture in
 @e fall of 1915, when, upon the ad- @ce of Major General Leonard Wood, |Ae university was definitely commit lii af 8rvice. The four batteries formed 8 this time responded to the call @ the time of the Mexican trouble 8hd spent the summer of 1916 at
 bbyEsanna preparing for an expected
 XII to the border.
 @ When these National Guard bat Aries had been honorably discharged, N was possible to organize a unit of za1e R. o. T. c. This was a year ago. S1d four years of military work mad" m Supplementary to the regular cur
 Aculum was to count in all as seven eRurs' credit toward the sixty per #eek required for the degree of AA. The declaration of war last Ebrng and the emergency formation @ large training group of 1,50o and Ao ore students temporarily disorgan~ Bed the R, O. T. C.
 # When college opened last fall, the Sburse. had again been made definite, Nor three hours of work including Mlirteen hours a week in all Gone &renilAg lecture, three hours of oreci- Ations three hours of calisthenics, End six hours of drill) and covering @ree years, the student was to be #edited nine hours in all (for the kree years) toward the B.A. or the Rh.B.
 atA decided step further away from ke normal undergraduate curricu- RaafS, the new R. o. T. C. course will i Rovide an intensive schooling in 2hich every subject will contribute @rectly to the training of an artillery Ahcer in accordance with the exact @g demands of such a commission. @pr the college man who completes
 Se work and is sent to a Reserve MHcers' Training Camp to receive ad- @ @ional training before he receives E@ commisson( as he has an eXcep- 8nal chance of doing), some sort of @r certificate Or war degree will in N probability be granted. The stu sNnt in the select course of the Scien- s8c school may substitute the R. O. N e. course for large part of his 8idies and receive his Ph.B. degree M>the end of the three years. The Meff' student taking an engineering x a chemical course will be able to @ain his technical studies while pur- @ng the R. o. T. C. course, thus Meparing for commission in the
 Engineers Reserve Corps.
 awrhe artillery student will find his