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Harvard’s criticism reflected a more widespread dissatisfaction with the educational rigor of ROTC. Princeton President Harold W. Dodd, for example, believed that its ROTC program was too segregated from civilian instruction...
...March 1953 issue of The Atlantic, Dodds wrote, “The general objection of educators is that the emphasis of ROTC is so exclusively on practical details of the ‘know how’ to the neglect of the complimentary ‘know...
LaPlace says he remembered the academic disparity, characterizing the ROTC courses as “not very challenging...
...academic experience of the normal Harvard undergraduate program was certainly very stimulating, but [ROTC] was perhaps a more practical aspect of the real world,” he says...
...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...