PLAN SPECIAL MID-YEAR TESTS

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has decided that special mid-year examinations shall be held early in January for the benefit of those men who are leaving soon after that time for Military and Naval Service. This will make it possible for many Seniors to secure their degrees, who will be unable to wait for the regular mid-year examinations.

This ruling will affect the R. O. T. C. applicants for the Thrid Series of Officers' Training Camps especially, because they must report for duty on January 5, 1918, several weeks before the last of the official mid-year examinations. The special ones will really begin late in December and extend through the first few days of January, although no official statement in regard to the exact time has as yet been issued. Men who wish to take these tests will be given an opportunity to make application to the office later.

On Friday, the entire regiment will have battalion muster. The first and second battalions will go through the ceremony in the morning, and the third as its regular drill hour in the afternoon. Company commanders are responsible for preparing the muster rolls. Blank forms for this purpose should be obtained by them at Military Headquarters.

The "Veritas" cellar insignia have arrived and may be obtained by R. O. T. C. cadets at the price of forty cents at the Military Office. Cadets who have not obtained a copy of the official Regulations should procure the same as soon as possible.

Captains P. M. Cabot '18, and C. Canfield '19, have been working this week at Framingham where they have applied their R. O. T. C. training to the system of trenches which is being constructed under their supervision.