Word: nrotc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard NROTC midshipmen who had counted on spending the summer cruising around the Mediterranean may instead find themselves drydocked in Boston...
...Defense Department, in an effort to stem the outflow of gold from this country, has cancelled all cruises to foreign ports by members of the Naval ROTC. About 20 Harvard undergraduates - and scores of other students at the Naval Academy and in 51 other college NROTC programs - will be affected by the directive...
...that about 400 of these will be accepted, amounting to $590,000. Both these sets of figures are slightly higher than last year's. Some 57 per cent of all applicants this year requested financial aid, but once again not everyone admitted who needed aid received it. Once Merits, NROTC scholarships, and other outside awards are added to the total, however, about half the new class will have financial assistance...
...said, however, that any changes were doubtful because of the "special concept" of the ROTC program in the Navy. "The NROTC gives enough training that graduates are immediately employable in active duty, while the other services require special camp after graduation," he said...
Capt. Rodgers said he did not feel that the course requirements in NROTC were too heavy. He added that he checked the percentage of NROTC students graduating with honors last spring and found it to be almost identical with the College average...