Navy Decision Pending

No DECISION ON THE assignment to Dartmouth of additional Navy training units had been made up to the last week in March, but in connection with the student specialized training program the College was announced as approved for possible selection for the basic Navy V-12 course and for Navy pre-medical training, as well as for Army and Navy basic medical sciences. Dartmouth had originally been approved on February 7 as a possible site for a unit in basic engineering training.

Meanwhile, steps toward possible selection of the College for any of these units were taken early in March with the visit to Hanover of an Inspection Committee from the First Naval District. Made up of a line officer, a medical officer and an engineering officer, the board spent two days making a thorough investigation of College facilities. Further information was supplied

to the Navy by means of an exhaustive questionnaire filled out by various administrative officers of the College and turned over to the visiting committee.

It is expected that the Navy's student training program will go into effect about July l, and any unit assigned to Dartmouth would probably start at that time. Candidates for the basic V-1 a course, out of which men will go into advanced specialized training, will be selected by state boards on the basis of screening tests to be given in the high schools and colleges on April 2. College men now in the V-1, V-5, and V-7 reserve classifications are not eligible to take these tests, but those not enlisted in any reserve and between the ages of 17 and 20 may be candidates for the new V-12 class. Dartmouth will give the tests on April 2 to eligible undergraduates.

CAPTAIN JOHN W. HARRIMAN Professor of finance and banking at theTuck School, now on leave for service inthe Army Air Corps.