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...Army ROTC never needs an excuse to consider revisions. But within and without the unit there are always enough complaints to unnerve the most hardened militarist. Colonel Dupuy's recent proposals, smoothed out by a subcommittee of the Committee on Educational Policy, approach the old ROTC problem from a fresh angle, however. In recent years, Shannon Hall has been trying unsuccessfully to take the middle ground between intellectual and practical instruction in the classroom. But because there are certain basic principles of soldiering which are less than stimulating intellectually, yet must be mastered, the level of ROTC classes has dropped...
...manual nature of much ROTC study, the approach which had seemed most feasible was to concentrate on the fundamentals of army training and cut the credit to one-half. Under Dupuy's plan, however, the drudge work of the ROTC is banished entirely from the College. Instead the chores and rote memory work are limited to an elongated summer camp, twelve weeks instead of the current...
...skeptics who doubt that any course connected with the military could be worthwhile, Dupuy's report outlines a thoughtful program. Though it is easiest to stick to discussing the manual of arms in class, the new plan would offer instead courses in Military History and the Psychology of Leadership. Since the history and psychology departments and even the law school have pledged support, there's strong promise that the ROTC could at last lift itself academically. Since the course will be open to the entire College at full credit, a test of the program's success will be the number...
...Colonel Trevor N. Dupuy, professor of Military Science and Tactics, initiated the proposals with a suggestion to Bundy last December. The subcommittee, with Donald C. McKay '28 as chairman, was formed to investigate Dupuy's ideas...
When this entire program is established, a motion will also be brought before the faculty to create a permanent Army ROTC Sub-committee of the Committee on Educational Policy. Dupuy and representatives of the academic fields concerned will try to coordinate the program with the non-military curricula...