With the draft loss than four years off for most of the Freshman class, Military and Naval Sciences, the two It. O. T. C. courses leading to reserve commissions in the Army and Navy, are likely to be more heavily applied for this fall than ever before.

The Naval course, strictly limited from the start by appropriations in Washington, will be able to admit no more than it did last year, Freshman. These men will sign up for the full four year course and take a physical examination before they are admitted.

The Army course in Filed Artillery, which is divided late two two-year periods of basic and advanced study, will be able to accommodate more men. Around 225 men, 25 more than last year, will be admitted from the Freshman class.

Eye Exam.

As in the case of the Navy, the Mil Sci Freshman will undergo a physical examination but it will not be as stiff as that for the N. R. O. T. C. Emphasis will be chiefly on the eyes. Entrance into the course will also be judged on a basis of scholarship in prep school.

However, students admitted to the course will be admitted only for the first two years. At the end of the Sophomore year the Army selects the top men in the course and continues their training through the advanced course. The number of men taken each year varies between '50 and 70, or one fourth to one third of the total who were admitted in the beginning.

Since the first two years of the R. O. T. C. carries no weight in exempting a student from the draft, admission to Mil Sci dies not by any means ensure an excuse from selective service.

Summer Training

One common feature of each course is the training period in the summer between the Junior and Senior years. In the Navy it consists of a cruise along the Atlantic sea-coast for from three to six weeks of camp at Fort Ethan Allan near Burlington, Vt. The Navy, in addition, offers optional cruises during every summer vacation.

Graduation from the two courses means a commission in the Army or Navy Re. serves. Military graduates receive commissions as second lieutenants in the Field Artillery Reserves and N. R. C. T. C. graduate come out as ensigns in the Naval Reserve.

Practically all the reserve officers who graduated this year are already on active service.

Different From Last War

The training of Harvard students during this war differs radically from the method employed in 1916-17. The country was absolutely unprepared in 1916 and the result was a general scramble to get under arms in which Harvard took a prominent part.

A Harvard regiment, open to any student, was formed to 1916 under the direction of Captain Constant Cordier, U. S. A., who was detailed to Cambridge at the urgent request of President Abbot Lawrence Lowell. He supervised the first R. O. T. C. courses given here, but most of the actual instruction was by regular Harvard professors, such as Professor Julian Lowell Cooldige '95, who retired a year ago as Master of Lowell House. These professors had received training during the previous summer at Plattsburg, and were considered qualified to give military instruction.

French Officers Arrive