The order from the War Department printed elsewhere in today's CRIMSON may come as a disappointment not only to the former "Quota A," but also to many others interested in the University Corps. Although it seemed for a time as though Army officials had seen fit to recognize the comprehensive two years' work of the Harvard Corps as equivalent to the four years' course prescribed for R. O. T. C. units in General Order 49, 1916, it is now apparent that this was not their intention. We can not criticize the War Department for their action, for the necessity of maintaining a single standard for all colleges is obvious; we can only regret that men who have had the benefits of training more extensive than the Government four-year course requires should be deprived of the advantages of the advanced class.

The worst which this change in orders will mean, however, is that the men assigned to Camp Devens will have a slightly longer wait for their commissions than if they had been detailed to Camp Grant. That their ability will eventually be recognized there is little doubt; officer-candidates from the Unisity have always led in infantry O. T. C.'s and the men formerly classed as Quota A are men above the former standard. If they feel themselves underestimated it would be well for them to recall the words of a famous American General, who remarked, when detailed to the obscurity of a Kansas cantonment, "I am a soldier; I go where I am ordered."