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Navy participants downplayed the drill's significance...
Unobtrusive and uncontested, about 100 naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) members held drill on the Harvard campus for the second time in 20 years yesterday afternoon...
While sweater-clad students strolled to classes outside on the leaf-strewn Yard, more than 100 midshippersons in formal Navy blues gathered in Harvard Hall for orders and a weekly officers' address. The drill, usually held at MIT, was mandatory for ROTC members from Harvard, Wellesley College, MIT and Tufts University...
ROTC, whose presence on campus was restrictedby the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1969, lastFebruary with the College's permission obtained aroom to hold a similar, one-time drill. By April,all military services nearly won a chance at fullreturn when the Undergraduate Council voted to urge the faculty to reconsider...
...Nobody really talked about it beforehand,"said Christina L. Ulses '90, Harvard's Navy ROTC public affairs officer. Ulses also noted that the drill was a single event unrelated to further activity...