An intensive three month training course in business administration was started for two hundred Quartermaster Corps officers at the Business School on Monday. Designated as the Army Supply Officers Training School, it is not only the latest addition to the coterie of service schools, both Navy and Army, located on the Allston side of the river, but under the new order one of the Army Training Schools newly consolidated at Harvard under Colonel Wood.

These student officers, ranging in rank from Second Lieutenant to Captain, have been selected from various Quartermaster Corps units throughout the country for training in higher echelon supply work.

Teaching by B-School

Most of the teaching is in the hands of Business School professors as in all the other schools across the river except the Navy Supply. Several Quarter-master Corps officers handle certain specialized subjects, however.

At the end of their three months here the men will be sent back to duty in Q.M. Corps posts working as integrators of industry and field supply, and handling some of the problems of large Quartermaster depots.

Not Connected to ROTC

This school, not directly connected with the civilian Quartermaster ROTC, is the fourth service school to be established at the Business School. The other three include the Army Air Forces Statistical School, the Midshipmen's School, and the Navy Supply School, the only one which does not use the civilian faculty.

Claverly, newly emptied of its civilian tenants, houses the majority of the new group. They take their meals at the Business School.

This new school for quartermaster affairs is expected to be followed by others both at the College and at the various graduate schools. The dates for these new Army Retraining Programs are not known as yet, but according to the announcement this February, they are to be established at an undetermined time this spring or early during the summer term.

These schools will give highly concentrated courses to specially selected soldiers, similar to those taking the new course at the Business School.