Word: pelle
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...Wednesday's CRIMSON Hayden Duggan attributed a statement to the "Dept. of the Army." In the interests of being accurate with information on a complex issue, it may be useful to point out that the statement was made by Col. Robert H. Pell, Harvard's Professor of Military Science at this time. Col. Pell does not speak for the "Dept. of the Army" on this issue. Here he speaks as a man, a man who has certain teaching and administrative responsibilities at Harvard and who is in the Army. His statement deserves thoughtful attention, but he is not the Department...
Colonel Robert H. Pell, commander of the Army ROTC unit at Harvard, told the CEP last month that Harvard's decision on the issue of ROTC on campus might produce a nationwide "disaster of real proportions...
...statement was contained in a private memorandum presented by Pell to the CEP meeting of December 4, five days before the CEP formulated its own resolution on ROTC. The memo is reprinted on page three of today's CRIMSON...
...Pell said that although the ROTC program is much larger at other colleges, Harvard's position as a precedent-setting leader of the academic community could mean that "As Harvard goes, so goes the Army ROTC program...
...other words, is trying to please everyone--from anti-war students at Harvard to the generals in Washington. Judging by Col. Pell's statement that the proposal couldn't have pleased him more, the Committee has done well enough by the Pentagon. But the proposal completely ignores the aspects of ROTC which its opponents at Harvard find most noxious. Nothing is said about the units' free use of Harvard facilities, nor about the full professorships which Harvard grants to ROTC personnel. It must be assumed, therefore, that no change in these arrangements is contemplated...