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Second Marriages. Although vast sums are spent by the Government on education, the report says, relatively little is known about whether the money is really contributing to better learning. And for all the talk of rising crime rates, there may have been an actual decrease in the harm that crimes do to people. Religious leaders worry about the rising divorce rate. Still, notes the report, the percentage of the population that is married has risen 7.5% since 1940, largely because of the increase in second marriages...
...course, even though our educational institutions can curb ROTC, they will not necessarily do so. Many universities are more than satisfied with the present arrangements. More than 100 institutions continue to maintain compulsory ROTC in the freshman and sophomore years, despite actual discouragement from the Pentagon, which views compulsory programs as inefficient. The B.U. faculty's uneasiness about the relationship between the education and the military is evidently not shared by many American educators...
...actual relationship between Harvard and each ROTC unit is governed by a contract signed by the University and the service concerned. The Navy and Air Force contracts (signed in 1926 and 1952 respectively) have been largely superceded by subsequent informal agreements. But the Army contract was signed only in 1966, and with slight variations, it can be regarded as the prototype for all three of Harvard's units...
...officers are interviewed by the Dean of Harvard College) and Harvard may always request that an instructor be removed for just cause (no cause of such a request is known). The senior officers in each ROTC Unit are given the non-tenured rank of Professor. The bulk of the actual instruction is carried by other military personnel given the non-tenured rank of Associate or Assistant Professor...
...three students leaders sent a letter to Dean Ford emphasizing that their choices were "not intended to set a precedent for future student participation in Faculty meetings." The letter stated that it would be appropriate to include students in the actual decision-making and expressed hope that "this concept would receive serious consideration by the Faculty...