The communication, printed in another column, seeks to make a comparison between the new military course and the Regiment, and one which is unfavorable towards the plan of a reserve officers' training corps. Although the writer gives a list of excellent reasons for the ultimate success of the Harvard Regiment, he concludes that the present course will give merely theoretical training and that there will be no opportunity to learn "the essentials of leadership." Contrary to these statements one third of the time required for this course will be reserved for practical drill, and in the spring a series of tactical walks will be held. Not only will a man receive more advanced training in the practical drill than the Regiment offered, but he will at the same time receive far more individual instruction both in the hours of lecture and on the drill ground.