Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neither teaching staff nor time to give a lecture twice, once at Harvard, once at Radcliffe, and our classes became partially co-ordinate (a more dignified word than coeducation) with Harvard. We took notes now amidst a sea of V-12 white-suited sailors and the navy uniformed ROTC, and sometimes they copied what we wrote. I remember Professor Payson Wild commenting on the results of a final exam in international relations: The Radcliffes scored on average 10 points higher, but the Harvards' bluebooks were more interesting to read...
...when we left Cambridge, quit "our little corner of the world," we were, in many ways, adults. My husband (Harvard '46, naval ROTC) and I became engaged when we were 19 and, like an astonishingly high number of our classmates, we are celebrating our 50th anniversary this year...
...People were being drafted left and right," says MacPherson, who was already in Army ROTC so that he could be an officer when his number was finally chosen...
...response to the protesters' cry of "smash ROTC, no expansion," some administrators left peacefully, while others were carried out and forcibly ejected from the building...
...know that people wrote honors theses, ate roast beef specials at Elsie's, joined the football team (I think we had one), but I remember the eight demands ("Smash ROTC, no expansion...