Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Cooney Weiland plans to use a different third line combination tonight looking for the one that can "hold its own against any other line." Joe Crehore will center the unit, with some combination of Tom Worthen, John Hamlen, and Albie Wells skating on his wings...
...action results from the current economy drive by all the armed services. Claiming that the College's unit is uneconomically small, the Air Force decided to do away with the program. The rationale behind the maneuver, however, cannot be presented solely in terms of economy; for the AFROTC's stake in the Harvard program transcends money alone. Not only the crying need for additional younger fliers, but the vast potential influence of the Harvard unit, make it essential that the Pentagon reconsider the new policy, ensuring that it does not lose more than it grains by dissolving the local unit...
This policy is the latest Air Force which in the past has made the unit here both unpopular and unpopulated. In the spring of 1954, the service informed the Harvard AFROTC that all seniors who would not fly, could not be commissioned. Students in the administrative program, despite heated protests to Washington, received slight compensation: opportunities to serve in the Air National Guard. This move, unjust as it was, caused a rapid drop in the enrollment of the College's unit until, by this fall, AFROTC was the smallest of the three services here...
...underpopulation caused the Pentagon to warn the Harvard unit that it must enroll more students or suffer termination. Taking the ultimatum to heart, Harvard officers began a vigorous proselytizing campaign which substantially refilled the Air Force's ranks. They attracted 37 freshmen, all of whom desired flight training. But, despite the increase, the Pentagon decided to evict the local unit...
...Army will convert its ROTC unit here from Artillery to General Military Science next June, it was learned yesterday. This will mark the first time in the ROTC's 37-year old history that there has been no Artillery unit at the College...