Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army unit was the primary target of the report since Navy and Air Force budgets are smaller and less flexible at present...
When a through of draft-wary upperclassmen besieged Shannon Hall this fall to join up in one of Harvard's R.O.T.C. units, the Army unit's cycle of popularity reached another peak. It had happened in 1914 and again before the last war, when R.O.T.C. enrollments jumped 50 percent. But this time there was a joker only 46 freshmen showed...
Under existing customs and regulations, the Army unit would allow only first-term freshmen to enter the program, and stuck to that requirement until a Student Council Committee on R.O.T.C. made its report two weeks ago. In that report, the committee noted increased R.O.T.C interest at Harvard and the prospect of a large drop in the College's tuition income next year, and made several recommendations to expand Army R.O.T.C. here...
There was little time to act on these proposals, as the spring term had already opened and final study cards were coming due. But the Army unit, still skeptical of freshman interest in the whole thing, promptly opened up fifty places in the second half of Military Science 1. The turnout was large and insistent; many applicants came armed with anxious mothers and fathers. An Administration-R.O.T.C. committee then looked into the problem, and another fifty openings were offered to the freshmen...
...second issue--how far permanent expansion of the Army unit should go--University and Army officials are holding off until a draft bill emerges from Congress. If that bill defers all college students, or if the Defense Department freezes R.O.T.C. allotments, expansion may became a dead issue. But if neither of these happens, a bigger R.O.T.C. unit would help carry the University through the first lean years of partial mobilization...