Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Naval contract specifies that the NROTC Professor be given a place on Harvard's major administrative board and receive the same privileges as other Department heads. The Army contract requires that a member of the Department of Military Science be given a seat on any Faculty committee whose jurisdiction includes ROTC...
...possibility of having regular Harvard Faculty members give regular Harvard courses which could be used to fulfill a ROTC requirement was raised in the period of questioning in the 1950's, although a problem arose regarding whether suitable courses would be given each year, or at least every other year. The discussion about having Harvard instructors give military science courses is founded upon the belief, in which the HRPC concurs, that military history and certain other military matters are valid academic endeavors within the liberal arts and general education spirits But problems arise when courses on military subjects are taught...
...That any changes in the financial status of ROTC students as a result of this motion be should be given special consideration by the Committee on Admissions and Scholarships...
...never entrusted the ROTC Units with the full privileges of an Academic Department, nor should it. An externally controlled body which pursues military training goals within the credit structure of the liberal arts program is incompatible with the liberal arts spirit. Credit courses on military matters must be given within the regular structure of Harvard rather than within the military structure of the ROTC Units...
...requirement that ROTC courses be granted academic credit towards the A.B. degree. Though the contracts specify that academic credit is to be granted, there is no legal reason why the contracts cannot be amended. It has in fact proved possible to amend the Army contract to waive, in a given year and with the permission of the Secretary of the Army, the requirement that 100 members be enrolled in the basic course whenever the basic course is given...