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Only the forward line will be in any kind of shape, as injuries and sickness continue to beset the booters. Coach Bruce Monro admits that it will take all five pre-league games to get the team working together, but did see some bright spots in practice and in the Tufts game this past Wednesday...
...decision to refuse commissions to four seniors last June indicates, in the words of former Dean of the College John U. Monro (himself a military man), "a different perspective on the Harvard boys than others...
...Monro, Master John Finley, and at least one other University official met with Colonel Pell and advised him that he was acting wrongly; he ignored the advice and held fast to his own judgment...
...there was nothing we could do," Monro stated recently. His statement points clearly to the problem. Should the Army have the right to come onto campus, use the Harvard name, and have full academic status, if it refuses to submit to academic pressures of any kind? Of course the Army must run its own programs and choose its own officers; but if its standards do not meet--or come under the influence of--those of the University, does the Army have a place in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences? Are the cadets deluded in thinking they are getting somewhere...
...Monro added that it is inevitable that the decision-making process will be looked at, and ought to be. The military should make the decision on commissioning its own officers; on the other hand, a military group by operating at a place like Harvard is obligated to bring itself out in the open...