POLL PLANNED ON TRAINING FOR DEFENSE

Seeking undergraduate support of its program to train Harvard for defense, the Student Defense League will go to the polls next Tuesday. As outlined in an agenda released last night, the program will include lectures in military subjects, military drill, and rifle practice.

Students will be given an opportunity to express their general feeling toward the work of the League and the amount of time they would be interested in spending on such training.

The courses have been worked out in conferences held during the week with members of the Faculty. One of the main lines the League wishes to develop is education in the affairs of Latin America. It is hoped eventually to work out an exchange system with universities in Rio and Buenos Aires.

No Official Credit

Other subjects in which lectures will be available are ballistics, map making and reading, communications, navigation, the gasoline engine, first aid, air photography, and meteorology.

These courses will give the student no particular advantages in the draft as no actual extension of the military program has as yet been announced from Washington. They will merely serve as unofficial training.

Polling will be conducted in the House Dining Halls, the Union, Dudley Hall, Emerson and Harvard Hall all day Tuesday. The result will to a large extent determine the magnitude of the curriculum made available by the League.