Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...composed in the main of well-trained and well-led citizen-soldiers, rather than rely entirely on mercenaries. Such a force, in both its active and reserve components, will necessarily require a great many young men, including present and future students, and will also require the highest type of leadership--the type of commanders who are most commonly found among university students who are qualified by specialized military training in addition to their native intelligence, intellectual background and overall background. Unless this source of leadership continues to come in quantity from the universities, our military leadership will become a vacuum...
Harvard points with justifiable pride to her preparation of young men for leadership in every respect of the affairs of mankind--business and industry, government, the professions and the arts. Why, indeed, should not Harvard continue to provide leadership for the armed forces which, in the future as in the past half century, will no doubt have as great an impact on technology, history and human society as any other profession; for any student of history knows that the preservation of liberty and peace at home and abroad, the implementation of the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation...
...practical matter, the abolition of ROTC in effect would require every Harvard graduate to enter the armed forces in the lowest enlisted grade, instead of the position of leadership which his general education, plus military training, now permits him to assume. One cannot help but wonder about the feelings of such a graduate frustrated by the lack of challenge in his military assignment, into which the policy of his own university has thrust him. One can also imagine that many potential Harvard men will not come to college at all, due to the termination of scohlarship aid presently offered through...
...week China-watchers were poring over the transcript of a summer meeting in Peking that offered choice insight into the passions aroused by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The document, a Red Guard pamphlet obtained in Hong Kong, purports to be the minutes of a meeting of the Peking leadership with rival Red Guard factions from the still troubled Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region that borders on North Viet Nam. There, factional strife had drastically curtailed rail shipment of aid to Hanoi. Exasperated officials summoned Red Guard leaders to an acrimonious conference in Peking, where the rebels were interrogated...
Late in the meeting, a Red Guard asks for the floor, but the leadership evidently has had enough. Kang snaps: Don't speak any more. We have had enough of words. I declare the meeting closed...