Word: rotc
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Harvard’s ROTC program dates back to 1916, when the first army drill unit was established and 1,200 students enlisted...
...study break in Winthrop House in January, Summers called the unofficial alumni fund “uncomfortable” and “unorthodox” and polled the student audience on whether they would support funding ROTC openly, retaining the status quo or not allowing any funding...
...Faculty has historically been less friendly to ROTC than has Mass. Hall, having voted in 1993 to exclude the commissioning ceremony from Harvard Yard—a recommendation that was not accepted by the University...
...acceptance among students has varied over time. Emil B. Fleischaker ’42 says that in the late 1930s, for example, ROTC was “frowned upon and we didn’t wear our uniforms...
...ROTC had an honored place at Harvard until 1965 or so,” says Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. ’59. “There were considerable facilities on campus...