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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Corporation will act on the Faculty's resolution at its regular meeting February 17. Dean Ford noted yesterday that the Corporation has in the past failed to approve recommendations from the Faculty or has asked for revisions. He declined to predict the Corporation's decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC Director Contradicts Pell On Harvard Unit | 2/6/1969 | See Source »

...should be noted, however, that the relative absence of middle level courses dealing entirely or primarily with Afro-American material makes it difficult for students to act on the freedom implied by these rules. Moreover, there are at present no special fields in Afro-American Studies within existing departments or committees of instruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Students at Harvard: The Rosovsky Report | 2/4/1969 | See Source »

...present basis of the nation's ROTC programs is the Reserve Officer Training Corps vitalization Act of 1964. The Vitalization Act is a strange mixture of nostalgic patriotism and modern defense planning. Although Congress voted to increase aid to high school ROTC units against Pentagon opposition, most of the bill reflects the changing function of the postwar ROTC. The bill provides for increased scholarship assistance to ROTC cadets planning to enter active service after graduation, as well as $40-$50 monthly allowances to all cadets in the advanced program. It also allows students to enlist in ROTC as late...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: HOW ROTC Got Started . . . | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...Department of Military Science at Harvard, which would provide the required Army ROTC courses at no direct expense to the University or its students. It further agreed to offer commissions to successful ROTC graduates, and to pay ROTC cadets a $50 monthly allowance as provided by the ROTC Vitalization Act...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: HOW ROTC Got Started . . . | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...University, on full administrative parity with all other Harvard departments. The head of the Department is to be designated as a full professor and voting member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (this was not included in the contract, as it is already required by the ROTC Vitalization Act). ROTC courses are to be scheduled so as "to make it equally convenient for students to participate in Army ROTC as in other courses at the same educational level," and they are to be given full academic credit toward a Harvard degree...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: HOW ROTC Got Started . . . | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

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