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Freshman 150 Ib. Crew; Harvard Mountaineering Club; Harvard Ski Club (Vice-President); Eliot House Crew (To Henley Royal Regatta, England); Christian Science Organization (Treasurer and Vice President); Dramatics; Winthrop House ("Guys and Dolls"); HDC ("Trolius and Cressida," "Caucasian Chalk Circle"); NROTC...
...Student Council's protest is even more outlandish. Its resolution held that the Navy Department was "not entitled to make a judgement as to whether the riots were communist-instigated or not, since no legal verdict has even been rendered on that question." The statement also criticized the NROTC for requiring students to see a film "that does not in any way reflect the views of the students or faculty insofar as it purports to be historic fact rather than political interpretation." Since when do professors or departments have to clear their views with their students? Since when...
Later in the evening, the Executive Board of the Liberal Union met and reconsidered its proposal for a committee to study abolition of NROTC. It decided that President Pusey was "not in a position to do anything." The Board agreed, however, to press for administrative action against the NROTC unit's showing of a "propaganda film...
...country by a private firm--from Headquarters, First Naval District. It was under no orders to show the film, and, according to Major Bruce A. Heflin, USMC, associate professor of Naval Science, the unit had "no particular intent" in showing it, except that it was deemed of interest to NROTC students and the general public. (Commander A. E. Brown, the unit's executive officer, however, had drawn a round of hisses when he introduced the film, saying, "the Navy's purpose in presenting this movie is to show how Communists dupe students...
...addition, the handout suggested that President Pusey appoint a committee to study the abolition of NROTC at Harvard, since the Navy's program "contains by virtue of its very purpose a substantial amount of propaganda and is these fore a threat to the University's high standards of objective scholarship...