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Twice a week, Lauren L. Brown ’07 puts down her textbooks and leaves her home in Harvard Yard for a 30-minute T ride to the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) detachment at MIT...
Harvard, however, has trailed other universities in courting large gifts from individual donors or foundations. Excluding a joint $100 million gift for a Harvard-MIT genomics institute, the University’s largest single gift was a $70.5 million bequest from the Loeb family...
Stanford, the California Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MIT and Vanderbilt all have taken in single donations of more than $300 million, according to data collected by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Over 30 different universities have received individual gifts of $100 million or more...
...ROTC scholarship that lets students go to pricey schools, ROTC cadets are certainly some of the most committed people at Harvard. In addition to taking a full slate of Harvard classes, the cadets hop on a shuttle van daily at about 6 am to make the trek to MIT. There, they participate in grueling physical drills as well as classes in military science...
Were they MIT students, these Harvard cadets would get the credit they rightly deserve for the cerebral half of their ROTC training, which involves complex courses in ethics and history. But Harvard will have none of it. Harvard cadets receive no academic credit and no official recognition (with the exception of a small commissioning ceremony) from Harvard whatsoever...