|Commando Training
Begun at Princeton

| Obstacle Course Being Used
‘| By 800 R. O. T. C. Cadets

Special to THE NEW YorRK TIMES.

PRINCETON, N. J., July 18—
Training in fundamental com-
mando techniques began this week
for 800 cadets in the Princeton
University Field Artillery unit of
the Reserve Officers Training
Corps with the opening of a spe-
cially designed obstacle course
on a wooded hillside near Lake
Carnegie.

Planned by Lieutenant Raleigh

ansl Jr., instructor in military
‘| tactics, to supplement the univer-
sity’s compulsory athletic program
‘land give to R. O. T. C. students
practice in surmounting barriers
commonly met in combat, the
‘| course was constructed largely by)
.| undergraduates.

All cadets are required to nego- |
tiate the course’s hurdles, sheer
walls, tunnels and entanglements
once a week. Emphasis at present
\is being placed on developing the
right technique in getting over the
obstacles, although eventually stu-
dents will be timed for speed inj
covering the half-mile  steeple- |
| chase.

Several cases of poison ivy have
developed among men who rolled,
fell or staggered from the limits
of the course, and a hand-over-hand
climb up a slender twenty-foot rope
has made blistered hands the rule.

 

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