Evening star., 1932-09-18
c. j. TO BROADEN
MILITARY COURSES
Freshmen and Science Stu
dents to Be Enrolled in
Unit Tuesday.

With membership in the r. o. T. G..
at Georgetown University being opened
this year for the first time to students
of the science courses at the college.
Maj. William H. Hobson, U. s. A., head
of the military department. is looking
forward to further plans for broaden
College freshmen and science stu
dents will be enrolled In the r. o. T.
c. Infantry unit on Tuesday, after
which the drill ground will resound to
are put through the military PAGES.
With the reopening Of the Medical
School also this week. it was expected
that activities in that department Of
the r. o. T. c. soon would be started.
Capt. Cobb Detailed.
The War Department has detailed
Capt. Lawrence L. Cobb, Infantry. as
an assistant professor of military
science and tactics at Georgetown this
year Capt. Cobb recently was sta
toned at Fort George G. Meade. Mary
land, where he served as adjutant to
the tank regiment. While two of the
Army officers assigned to the George
town R. o. T. C. last year were trans
ferred to other posts during the Sum-
mer. Capt. William c. DeWare is
again with the staff. He joined the
Georgetown department last year.
The two officers recently transferred
are Capt. Raymond L. Shoemaker, now
stationed at Fort Washington, and
Lieut.. Henry j. Hunt. Jr.. who is on
duty in the Panama Canal Zone.
st. Mary's- College at EmmitSburg, Md,
where he obtained his A. B. and M. A.
degrees, and was commissioned in the
Regular Army in 1917 from the OFF,
GERS Reserve Corps. Ee is a native
of Delaware. He also is a graduate
of the Army's Infantry and Tank
Schools.
While the new freshman class at the
college is somewhat smaller than last
years, Maj. Hobson expects the re-
cruits to be obtained from the science
courses will bring the infantry unit
up to its usual strength the battalion
last year having consisted OF four COM
panies. Uniforms and equipment are
to be issued Immediately so as not to
interfere with the weekly drills.
Medical Unit Curtailed.
The medical unit is under the di-
rection of Maj. Henry L. Kraft, Army
Medical Corps. but owing to restrlc-
tions placed upon the r. o. T. c. this
year IN the Army dppTOpTidIloH uili,
new enlistments will not be rec-ired
in the medical unit. There will BE- no
restrictions, however. on those VINO al
ready were enrolled in the unit and
these medical students will be able to
complete their r o. T. c. course.
All departments of Georgetown Uni
versity, with the exception of the
School of Foreign Service, will be in
operation this week. Glasses at the
Law School, for both day and evening
courses, start Wednesday. At the Medi-
cal and Dental Schools, they begin to-
morrow. Registrations in the profess
sional departments, it was said, are
about on a par with those of last year.
The foreign service students will be-
gin their academic year, as usual on
october l. There will be a formal aca-
demic ceremony in honor of the occa-
sion.
With freshmen activities already un-
der way at the college, the junior and
senior classes begin tomorrow and We'd
nesday, respectively. Rev. Vincent j.
Hart, S. j., Is dean of the graduate and
undergraduate departments in the
College of Arts and Sciences, having
succeeded Rev. J. j. Mclaughlin, 8. j.,
who was transferred during the Sum-
mer to Woodstock College.