New Britain herald., 1918-01-25
ALUMNI ID INSPECT .
 YALE AT WAR WORK
Roundup at New Haven College , on WaShinston'S Birthday

has gone forth for the alumni of Yale to report at New Haven on Washing tons Birthday-Friday, February 22- to inspect the university busy at it's war work. Nearly a thousand men are in the uniforms of the Tale Field Artillery Reserve Officers Training Corps and of the Yale Naval Training Unit
 The graduates are invited to learn about these things at first hand, in specting the $125,00O field artillery armory built by loyal graduates in the shadow of the monster Yale Bowl sthe classroom building and artillery laboratory, Artillery Hall, erected by the Yale Corporation in the rear of the University Gymnasium; the bat tery of French 75-mm. guns which have seen service on the French front, a unique possession in which Yale men take justifiable pride, and the rest of the extraordinary equip ment which have earned for the two units the reputation of being second only to West Point and Annapolis and to the School of Fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma They are invited to learn something about the important work which is being done for the govern ment in the university's laboratories.
 Never before has such a summons gone out to the alumni of Yale To be sure, Alumni University Day. fall ing always upon WaShington's Birth day, has been held annually since it's inauguration in 1914. But the pur- pose has been primarily to study the university'S educational equipment and problems.
 This year the interest will center entirely in what Yale is doing to pre- pare men for the service and to con- vert it's laboratories and other equip ment into practically a government in Stitution.
 The Alumni Day program, which is as yet worked out only in it's essen tial details, win begin at II o'clock in the morning with an assembly of the graduates in Lampson Lyceum. From 11:30 until 1 o'clock, those who have made the patriotic pilgrimage to New Haven will inspect the equipment of the, R. o. T. c. and the Y. N. T. U !, as the naval unit is known, seeing the men at their work and drills and looking over the French field pieces, which have @ story of their own to tell
 Yale men point with pride especial ly to the university's record in field artillery training. It was in the sum 1ner of 1915 that President ,ETadley. an aggressive believer in national pre- paredpess, decided to act upon the so- licited advice of Major General Leon- ard Wood to the effect that Yale could render her best service to the nation in keeping with tradition more than TNArn rTin nI6 I,r J sistent efforts to training up men in the important but difficult arm of the artillery. Since the fall of that year, the Yale record has been consistent following through the history of the Yale battalion which summered in 1916 at Tobyhanna preparing for a call to service at the Mexican border, the> large group of 1,56O students who drilled daily on the campus after tho declaration of war last spring, and the incorporation last fall of the R o. Y. c. course as a part of the under graduate curriculum, covering three years of study and drill and counting as nine hours toward the Bachelors degree.
 The Naval Training Unit similarly organized, has also been a pioneer unit, from which the number of men going to accept commissions in the navy has been almost as remarkable as that of the Yale-trained men com- miSsioned in the field artillery. At the head of this unit is now Rear Ad- miral Colby M. Chester, U. s. N, re- tired, the distinguished former head of the naval academy, veteran of the Civil war, and director of the naval observatory.
 At 1 o'clock there will be presented a university service flag with stars for approximately a thousand students whose classes are not graduated and faculty members absent from the campus and in the national service. The spectacle should prove a thrilling one. President Hadley will accept the flag fer the university, and a poem written for the occasion by Robert Munger, '97, will be read for the first time
 A luncheon in Mem orial hall at i sc at which President Hadley and others win tell of the war work being done at the university will be followed by an opportunity to visit various labor atories ard learn something about this phase of the university's contribution to the nations need.
 Last June the graduates returned tt New Haven to a commencement shorr of most of its usual attractions. Ther' was no ball game with Harvard, ant the gai1y-clad reunion classes made nc public appearance. But the Tuesda, which is customa.rify devoted to these events was marked by the dedication of the artillery armory at Yale fielc and by patriotic exercises in the uni versity quadrangle which left an i'm pression upon the alumni never car ried away before.
 The alumni day program arranged for Washington's birthday and now being worked out in it's details vii offer the alumni all the inspiration o