Word: relationship
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Harvard's curricular relationship with ROTC is inconsistent with a university's commitment to truth--a commitment which must transcend national allegiances...
...centrally-controlled recruiting system, ROTC's goals and methods are not those of a university. The military stresses discipline, obedience, and efficiency; the university should properly encourage critical inquiry and individual expression. As long as the military continues to seek educated manpower, there will inevitably be some relationship between the armed forces and higher education. But this relationship should never be allowed to compromise the integrity of our universities...
...actual relationship between Harvard and each ROTC unit is governed by a contract signed by the University and the service concerned. The Navy and Air Force contracts (signed in 1926 and 1952 respectively) have been largely superceded by subsequent informal agreements. But the Army contract was signed only in 1966, and with slight variations, it can be regarded as the prototype for all three of Harvard's units...
...will not necessarily do so. Many universities are more than satisfied with the present arrangements. More than 100 institutions continue to maintain compulsory ROTC in the freshman and sophomore years, despite actual discouragement from the Pentagon, which views compulsory programs as inefficient. The B.U. faculty's uneasiness about the relationship between the education and the military is evidently not shared by many American educators...
...complex and changing institution. It still uses the purposes for which it was founded 50 years ago to justify its status in American education, but the modern ROTC little resembles its ancestor of 1916. Thus, it is likely that American colleges will continue to re-examine their relationship with ROTC