The people of Boston gave a most enthusiastic and cordial welcome to the six French officers who arrived yesterday afternoon to assist in the training of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University. From the time they left their train at the South Station until the entered the Harvard Club on Commonwealth avenue, the Frenchmen passed between two lines of cheering men and women; in places the crowds were so thick that it was an impossibility to move along the sidewalks.

The three automobiles which held the six men, accompanied by officials of the city and the University, were preceded by the Regiment Band, the first battalion of the R. O. T. C., and the colors of the United States, France and the University. The two remaining battalions of the Corps bringing up the rear. The line of march lay along Federal and Milk streets to Postoffice square, thence along Congress, State, Washington and School streets, to the City Hall, where the parade was review by Mayor Curley, and from there along Beacon street to the State House, where Governor McCall reviewed the men. Turning down Dartmouth street the Corps marched along Commonwealth avenue to the Harvard Club, and after being there reviewed by the six French officers, returned to Cambridge.

In an interview with a CRIMSON reporter late yesterday afternoon, all six officers expressed themselves as "glad and proud" to be able to take part in the work of training American officers. They were very deeply impressed by the sincere ovation they had been accorded on their arrival, and also by the showing of the Harvard battalions they have crossed the ocean to train. Major P. J. L. Azan, the ranking officer of the six men, gave out the following statement:

"We appreciate greatly the kind reception and the parade of the regiment, and are deeply touched by your magnificent welcome. Apart from the demonstration of the people of Boston, which was most gracious, I am impressed by the appearance of your young men of the Corps, and I am sure that they well make perfect soldiers."

Each of the officers has received the Croix de Guerre, and four of them are members of the Legion of Honor. The group in composed of Major P. J. L. Azan, Major J. de Reviers de Mauny, Captain A. Dupont, Captain de Jarny, Lieutenant A. Morize and Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux, who was a student at the University in 1907-08.

The exact form in which the R. O. T. C. here will be continued has not yet been announced by the War Department, but it is now certain that the work, at least for men under 20 years and nine months, will continue as usual. For the present the Corps will go on exactly as it has in the past