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...largest of Harvard's three units is the Naval ROTC, with a current enrollment of 133 students. Four-year NROTC students must take three-and-one-half full courses from the Department of Naval Science to earn a commission with the Navy or the Marine Corps. Since all of these courses carry full credit, it is possible to earn more than twenty per cent of the credits required for a Harvard degree in NROTC--this is the highest percentage of any ROTC unit in the Boston area. Harvard's NROTC students, however, only count about one half of these courses...
Only ten people remained yesterday at the end of a four-and-a-half hour state convention of Massachusetts Young Democrats to push through a resolution demanding withdrawal of academic credit from ROTC and NROTC...
...Naval contract specifies that the NROTC Professor be given a place on Harvard's major administrative board and receive the same privileges as other Department heads. The Army contract requires that a member of the Department of Military Science be given a seat on any Faculty committee whose jurisdiction includes ROTC...
Colonel Pell indicated in a written statement to the HUC that academic credit is a definite inducement to take ROTC programs. Is academic credit an inducement at Harvard? Of 142 NROTC members, 79 per cent take Naval Science as a fifth or sixth course. All 49 members of the Air Force program take Aerospace Studies as a fifth course. ROTC grades are, however, counted in computation of a student's rank list group, and a grade in a ROTC course will substitute for any lower grade...
Moreover, ROTC has not become "a narrowly preprofessional program." Of the Harvard NROTC graduates from 1950-1959, only six per cent are still on active duty. I don't know the exact percentage for all ROTC graduates countrywide, but it is assuredly less than 20 per cent. Neither figure is indicative of professionalism in the ROTC. John Miller...