Word: galston
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Yale thus joins other colleges that have made ROTC an entirely extracurricular affair. Although Yale has given academic credit for ROTC for more than 50 years, Arthur W. Galston, professor of biology and chairman of the faculty course of study committee, insisted that the decision was based "solely on the academic merits." Galston and his colleagues have apparently just discovered that "ROTC is like singing in the Whiffenpoofs-a perfectly fine activity, but one that we don't think merits any academic standing." Not all professors were even that dispassionate. J. P. Trinkaus, another biologist and master of Branford...