Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knowledge, the Harvard anti-ROTC debate has produced no real evidence that ROTC have ever had any adverse effect upon the Harvard faculty of student body. Compliance with the law of the land, honest service to the nation, and respect for the orderly processes of government are not viewed as debilitating. There is nothing insidious or evil about the ROTC program. Very few college educated men are known to have finished their experience as ROTC cadet and officer-leader without a great sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. The few dissidents found among the college educated men who do fulfill their...
Most employers of large numbers of college graduates (and most graduate and law school admission officers) state that they prefer ROTC graduates when considering applicants of otherwise equal qualifications. They find that the man with officer training an active military service generally is more mature, has had more leadership and management experience and is more capable of accepting responsibility than men hired directly out of college. Nationwide, less than five per cent of eligible college students take Army ROTC. (At Harvard the number who take ROTC is less than one-half of one per cent of has college enrollment...
...armed forces is left unanswered. The traditional precept of a broad-based citizen soldier army, with the dangers and sacrifices of military duty shared equally by all able-bodied men, is conveniently forgotten. There is no hue and cry to make the draft law fair and equitable or to provide an acceptable substitute for ROTC, if needed a substitute can be found...
...middle-of-the-road pop music: a Frank Sinatra ballad, a Lawrence Welk instrumental and, again and again, Andy Williams singing Battle Hymn of the Republic. Sixteen minutes is given over to smoothly delivered commercials, five minutes to news, and nine minutes to "commentaries on our times." Samples: - On law and order: "I don't agree there's a civil war in this country between blacks and whites. I think there's a great civil war between the lawbreakers and the law-abiders...
...prohibition of "monopoly" that suggests that bigness alone is bad. The most direct precedent traces to 1945, when the U.S. directed the Aluminum Co. of America to split off properties. The key opinion was written by Judge Learned Hand of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, who decided that law "did not condone 'good trusts' and condemn 'bad' ones; it forbade...