Word: pelle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present professor of Military Science, Col. Robert H. Pell, previously an Army public relations officer in New York, has demonstrated maladjustment to Harvard during his first year here...
Undoubtedly Pell is a sincere man who is devoted to his country and the Army. But his position on the Harvard Faculty does not give him the privilege to run ROTC like a little West Point. In the case of the four disenrollments, Pell did have the authority to act on the basis of his personal opinion of the cadets' personal characteristics. But it does not excuse the fact that he used poor judgment, was factually contradictory, and was inconsiderate of the students' rights and post-college plans...
...Pell felt that the four students, although they all showed improvement in the second semester last year and were not necessarily the lowest academically, did not qualify on character grounds...
...three cases my judgment differed from Pell's, and both John F. Finley and I tried to change his judgment; in the end, however, there was nothing more we could do, and Pell's decision was final," Monro said...
Dean Glimp, who has discussed the matter with Pell recently, did not feel he knew enough specifics to comment on the ROTC action in June. But John U. Monro, then Dean of the College, said yesterday that he was satisfied that Pell and his staff had the responsibility and authority to make the officer-candidacy decision and had strictly followed the Army procedure...