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Friday night the action moves outdoors with W. C. Felds and Road Runner appearing on the screen. Ever since the movie of Colonel Pell two weeks ago, people have been turning out in droves for Quincy film presentations. Beer will be available...
Colonel Robert H. Pell, professor of Military Science, said yesterday that the sharp decline in applications may affect the Army's decision on whether or not to remain on campus. "You can't operate a program with no students in it," he said...
...Pell denied that the SDS anti-ROTC campaign had any affect on students' desire to join ROTC. He said that the decline in applications was merely evidence that the panic caused by last year's cancellation of graduate deferments had subsided...
After the cancellation, Pell said, "Graduate students thought they were going to be drafted and pressed the panic button. But when they saw that everyone was not called up, pressure to get into uniform and beat the draft was lessened...
Major W. R. Folk, director of the Air Force ROTC unit at Harvard, said yesterday that applications for Air Force ROTC were coming in at about the same rate as last year. Pell, however, said that Army ROTC applications are down to one-third the rate of previous years...