OVERSEERS PROPOSED MILITARY AMENDMENTS

A recommendation that an amendment to the National Defene Act of June 3, 1916, be made to permit the assignment of reserve and other available officers to instruction in the colleges, was included in the report to the University Board of Overseers of the Committee on Military Science and Tactics. They also urged that sections 49 and 50 of the Act be amended so that eligibility for commissions shall depend on the satisfactory completion of the hours of training required and that the amount of military work to qualify students for commissions in the Army be reckoned entirely in hours.

The report was signed by Langdon P. Marvin '88, chairman, Major General Leonard Wood '83, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Arthur Woods '92, Eliot Wadsworth '00, Samuel D. Parker '91, George B. Blake '93, Amos T. French '85, George C. Shattuck '01 and Alexander Whiteside '95.

Efforts to secure such an amendment have already been made by President Lowell, but they have not been successful.

The Committee also made the following very important recommendations:

Recommendations of Committee.

2. In order that the training of the Harvard R. O. T. C. may be brought to a higher perfection, a drill hall should be provided for the winter training.

3. Throughout the war, Harvard should continue summer camps for intensive training, open not only to Harvard men but as broadly as possible to all men properly qualified, particularly those too young to attend the Government camps.

4. The Navy Department should be asked to commission as ensigns, without the requirement of attendance at any further Government school, graduates of the Harvard Naval course, and of similar courses at other colleges, on their passing the examinations prescribed by the Government.