Word: contentively
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...Departments of Military Science, Naval Science, and Aerospace Studies are externally controlled departments and are not subject to regular Harvard institutional control as are regular Harvard departments. Harvard has no assurance that its standards of appropriate academic content and conduct will be met, for its only clear control over the ROTC departments is its power to reject their programs entirely. ROTC Departments are neither purely Administrative Departments nor fully Academic Departments. The ROTC Departments do not have the privileges of recommending tenured Faculty appointments and recommending that academic credit toward a degree be granted for completion of ROTC courses...
...special status of the ROTC units as externally established and controlled Departments of Military Science, Naval Science, and Aerospace Studies represents an undesirable delegation of authority by the Harvard Faculty. It appears that Harvard must accept at least the prescribed course content of the ROTC programs as a condition for maintenance of the programs. If Harvard were to determine that some part of the minimum content was inappropriate for a liberal arts college or if Harvard were to demand that any particular course material should be included in the curriculum, it would have no assurance that its desires would...
...ONLY does Harvard have no assurance that its demands regarding academic content will be met, but Harvard does not have assurance that its demands regarding academic conduct will be met by the ROTC Units. All ROTC instructors selected by the Military Services, though their appointments are subject to Harvard approval (the senior 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...
...instance, of the novel Pnin (included in its entirety in Nabokov's Congeires) comes not so much from the telling of the story as from the character of Pnin, a hapless professor of Russian in a small American college. There may be no real separation between style and content, but Nabokov uses his style to create a believable man, charming and pathetic. Having just fallen down a flight of stairs and flat on his back. Pnin remarks, "It is like the splendid story of Tolstoy--you must read it one day, Victor--about Ivan Ilyich Golovin who fell...
...Departments of Military Science, Naval Science, and Aerospace Studies are externally controlled Departments and are not subject to regular Harvard institutional control as are regular Harvard Departments. Harvard has no assurance that its standards of appropriate academic content and conduct will be met, for its only clear control over the ROTC Departments is its power to reject their programs entirely. ROTC Departments are neither purely Administrative Departments nor fully Academic Departments. The ROTC Departments do not have the privileges of recommending tenured Faculty appointments and recommending the granting of degrees. They do have the privilege of recommending that academic credit...