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Without a certain esprit de corps, any military unit would be useless in battle. the NROTC edict requiring all members of the Unit to join Taffrail Club was undoubtedly issued in the hope of building up Naval morale and unity in the College...
...NROTC ultimatum is unrealistic; bonds of loyalty in the battle line are quite different from the atmosphere of good feeling created by drinking beer form the same keg. One results from enduring the same ordeals; the other from a chemical loosening of the tongue. Even if the Navy's social theory were correct, compulsory Taffrail membership could hardly boost the Unit's fraternal point score: in years past Taffrail has boasted better than ninety percent membership. With this large percentage of voluntary membership. With this large percentage of voluntary membership, pushing a few apathetic members into the club could only...
...regulation alters the scope of the NROTC units defined by Pentagon officials: They agree that the military academics manufacture enough straight-backed career officers, and look to the ROTC units for emergency officers trained in a liberal, rather than a military, college. When the NROTC encroaches upon this valuable academic environment with edicts which belong on a naval base, it weakens its very reason for existence...
...Student Council last night postponed decision on its approval of the "Taffrail Club," a proposed compulsory organization of NROTC students. After conferring with the deans this week, the Council will make a final decision Monday...
Briefly noting a table with five official Navy models that students try to identify, we moved on to a replica of a ship's bow standing about four feet high. Because many shipboard accidents occur when NROTC lubbers run afoul of the anchor chain, there is a complete anchor rigging to teach Harvard's sailors where not to stand when the anchor drops...