Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...media coverage was the response of other blacks. "They did not have any interest in direct action, civil disobedience, and certainly not nonviolence. Not until 1956, with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, did nonviolence capture the imagination of the press and the world, thanks especially to Dr. King's charismatic leadership...
...comments at a recent Student-Faculty Advisory Council meeting Captain Moriatry of Navy ROTC made a useful distinction between operational courses (e.g., leadership, weapons systems, military operations and administration, marine navigation) and policy courses (e.g., U.S. foreign policy and the role of the military). He indicated that it is the Navy's belief that Harvard prefers to have its won regular professors teach courses on policy matters at Harvard. The Army, though, offers just such a course: Military Science 4hf--"Operations and Military Administration"--includes "a survey of the role of the United States in world affairs...
...More than 1100 of these young men (ROTC graduates each year) will become career officers to furnish the hardcore leadership for the future. It is very evident that the present mission of ROTC is the production of officers, not merely to expose students to military training." (Memorandum...
...being quixotic, is a very important fight against the policies of the U.S. Government around the world, one that would, if successful, have a real, material effect on the US military: "Let it be understood beyond question that there is at present no acceptable alternate source of junior officer leadership if ROTC is driven from the college campus" (memorandum). And it is only in this context that the CEP resolution and the response by the Administration to the Paine Hall "demonstration" make sense...
...Some parts of ROTC could be extracurricular and not for degree credit (for example, operational or technical courses taught by military officers in such fields as leadership, marine navigation, weapons systems, and the like) while other parts could consist of regular Arts and Sciences course, approved by academic departments and taught by departmentally recommended instructors (for example, policy courses in such fields as military history, defense policy, foreign affairs, and the like). Purely ROTC courses would count toward the commission; academic department courses would count toward both the commission and the A.B. degree...