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...Colonel Trevor N. Dupuy, professor of Military Science and Tactics, presented the College with a three-pronged proposal to reform ROTC. He suggested that summer training extend to at least 12 weeks, that the campus four-year program be whittled down to three years, and that the College institute “an expanded program of civilian instruction in ROTC classes,” The Crimson reported...
...response to Dupuy’s concerns, the College’s Committee on Educational Policy convened a subcommittee in the spring of 1954, composed of a group of seven University faculty members, to address the issue of the role of ROTC at Harvard...
...page report, the subcommittee advocated adopting all of Dupuy’s recommendations. Leaving the mechanical aspects of Army training to an extended summer period would free up the academic year for more rigorous ROTC courses, thus allowing for the elimination of a year of ROTC instruction in the college. This in turn would allow students to choose whether or not to enter the program after a year of study, when “the advantages...might be more apparent...
...while the program failed to get completely off its feet, it did score a success in influencing similar changes in many other colleges throughout the nation. According to the Crimson, Yale, Princeton and Ohio State Universities and Kenyan College similarly planned “to integrate ROTC courses into a liberal arts curriculum,” and other colleges considered doing...
...effects of changes set in motion 50 years ago are still felt today. Under the current ROTC program, according to Pillai, students can choose among a two, three, or four year program, a “key aspect” of which is a summer training program that lasts around four weeks...