Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will any Harvard rules be changed in order to permit a ROTC training program to be an extracurricular activity...
...Does "extracurricular" in this instance simply mean "non-credit...
...Will ROTC have the privileged status of extracurricular activities like athletics...
...transition begin not only as soon as possible within legal restraints, but see it carried out as openly and candidly as possible. No purpose will be served by obscuring the intent of the Faculty vote by arcane interpretations of what are the "privileges and facilities" of ordinary extracurricular activities. The Department of Athletics and PBH are not models of what the Faculty had in mind. The first is a Department of Instruction--which ROTC is specifically not, the second is an extraordinary extracurricular activity by any standard...
...ROTC and to find new ways of affirming Harvard's responsibility to the national defense more in keeping with our times. I cannot presume to guess what those ways will be, and I can only hope that the intent of the Faculty to limit ROTC to an ordinary extracurricular activity will be clearer by virtue of this letter. Jerome S. Bruner Professor of Psychology