Word: pelled
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Colonel Robert H. Pell, commander of the Army ROTC unit at Harvard, said the CEP proposal "makes good sense. I can't think of anything they could have done that would have pleased me more," he said...
...later Premier Aleksei Kosygin received U.S. Senators Albert Gore and Claiborne Pell in Moscow and delivered a serious lecture on the dangers of either superpower attempting to jump ahead of the other in military strength. Both, he urged, should press on with negotiations for limiting anti-ballistic missiles and should seek ratification of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Now that Czechoslovakia is safely in hand, it seems that the Kremlin is finding it easier to be prudent...
...Colonel Pell's statement does not, however, apply to Harvard College, which is solely a liberal arts institution. In a liberal arts college, it is inappropriate to grant credit towards a A.B. degree for completion of courses of a solely pre-professional nature. The HRPC does not try to define what consitutes a solely pre-professional course, nor do we attempt to define what constitutes appropriate rigor. Harvard normally seeks to make decisions in accordance with general guidelines rather than rigid definitions. The military training goal of the ROTC programs is a clear violation of the liberal arts norm...
...Colonel Pell indicated in a written statement to the HUC that academic credit is a definite inducement to take ROTC programs. Is academic credit an inducement at Harvard? Of 142 NROTC members, 79 per cent take Naval Science as a fifth or sixth course. All 49 members of the Air Force program take Aerospace Studies as a fifth course. ROTC grades are, however, counted in computation of a student's rank list group, and a grade in a ROTC course will substitute for any lower grade...
...inducement to take ROTC programs, although the inducement does seem less than has been claimed. ROTC programs should not be made appealing at the sacrifice of essential principles of the liberal arts institution, especially when the basis of their appeal is unclear in the first place. Colonel Pell is concerned about a potential "disservice to the maintenance of the national defense establishment, as now constituted." We contend that any aspect of the status of ROTC at Harvard which is a disservice to the principles of the liberal arts institution cannot possibly be a true service to the national interest...