Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report to the Faculty, the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee (HRPC) said 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...
...Army Gen. Hugh B. Hester, ret., has said that ROTC is self-defeating because, in anything, ROTC programs distract students from more useful study in regular Arts and Sciences courses. Because of their rank and because of time wasted on ROTC courses of little value, ROTC graduates, Hester wrote this summer, often prove more difficult to train in complex technical skills than do regular college graduates new to the military...
Finally, it is not clear that ROTC could contribute significantly to an independent-minded military. It is not very likely that a student who volunteers for ROTC under no draft pressure would openly question prevailing U.S. policy...
...Harvard makes a unique contribution to national security by training "brilliant young men" with "God-given leadership abilities," as Pell called them, to lead the army in place of presumably less gifted, less broadminded non-ROTC enlisted...
Faculty objections to ROTC in 1969 focused largely on the incompatibility of an outside-controlled, pre- professional military training program with the principles of a liberal arts college and the potential surrender of academic freedom implicit in hiring teachers who might feel reluctant to publicly question executive or military policy...