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Another intermediate step towards the final goal of a Harvard-Leningrad exchange program was taken successfully yesterday. Professor A. D. Alexandrov, Rector of the University of Leningrad, told the CRIMSON, "I am certain as a man can be that there will soon be professors and graduate students starting the new program, possibly next year...
Yesterday, most of the visiting professors spoke to seminars in their various fields of study, with Professor V. A. Fock, one of the foremost physicists alive, drawing a capacity audience of about 300 in the Jefferson Lecture Hall. Most of the professors leave today, Alexandrov for Berkeley, Calif., Fock for Princeton and the others for New York City...
...counting on Senator Humphrey's natural appeal to young people, who are tired of the confused and faltering government they have known since 1952," Samuel H. Smith '59, president of the group, said Monday. A. Sprague Coolidge '15, lecturer on Chemistry, and H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, are the Faculty advisors of the group, which is open to all undergraduates and graduates at Harvard and all Radcliffe students...
Naturally, this need increases as the world becomes more complicated. In a recent full-scale reevaluation of ROTC, two Dartmouth professors assert that with advancing technology, the concept of the trained reserve, hastily mobilized, citizen army is outmoded; the only realistic alternative now is a professional armed force in being, obviously necessitating good officers. Coupled with Professor Samuel Huntington's idea of officership as a profession, a policy of high-calibre training for college men to make them able officers becomes a necessity...
...DeVere P. Armstrong, professor of Military Science and Tactics, has thoughtfully devoted a large part of his three year tour at Harvard to a re-examination of ROTC, especially as it operates in the strictly volunteer Ivy League units. He has recommended to higher authorities an experiment, designed to reduce the amount of on-campus work by eliminating the fall term of freshman ROTC. The time, he says, could be devoted fruitfully to recruiting, thus preventing the hasty and usually negative decisions of bewildered freshmen...