Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hangman Without Pay. Dr. Carl Jung, the late Swiss psychiatrist, once observed that mountains are not only geographical barriers; they can also limit the horizons of the human spirit. In many of the country's remote Alpine valleys and gorges, medieval habit and thought persist so strongly that Stocker and Kohler's defense counsel found it worthwhile to call for theological testimony to justify the defendants' religious zeal...
Until recently, the function of ROTC remained similar to what it was in 1916. The Corps was created in the spirit of the civilian army; it has long reflected the view that a nation's best defense is a prepared citizenry. As it name suggests, the military training that ROTC brought to the college campus was designed to create a vast body of reserve officers. The Regular Army could use these reserve officers to provide additional leadership in times of national peril. Congress assumed that the military academies could provide the officers for the small peacetime army...
...position as a military man, a ROTC instructor might feel restricted in the freedom to express views in conflict with an official national policy. He indicated that a ROTC instructor might feel so restricted. The possibility that a ROTC instructor might be so restricted is incompatible with the spirit of academic freedom...
...ROTC Units,not as Harvard Departments. Harvard has never entrusted the ROTC Units with the full privileges of an Academic Department, nor should it. An externally controlled body which pursues military training goals within the credit structure of the liberal arts program is incompatible with the liberal arts spirit. Credit courses on military matters must be given within the regular structure of Harvard rather than within the military structure of the ROTC Units...
...liberal art institution cannot possibly be a true service to the national interest, for whose physical protection a national defense establishment exists. At present, the ROTC programs render a disservice to Harvard through the incompatibility of several aspects of their goals and structure with the liberal arts spirit and the principle of academic freedom...