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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cutbacks in Army commissions definitely will not affect the ROTC unit here, Lt. Col. Trevor N. Dupuy, professor of Military Science and Tactics, said yesterday...
...Army memorandum last September warned that budgetary limitations might deprive certain seniors across the country of their ROTC commissions. The Department of the Army, however, has notified Dupuy that the College unit can commission all 72 of its graduates, Dupuy said...
Dupuy pointed out in October that since the College's unit is in field artillery, a cut was less likely here than at other schools...
...seminar, then, remains as the basic unit of graduate instruction. Since the average seminar requires three times as much preparation as the average lecture course, few students enroll in more than one per semester. Because most of the incoming students have studied at large institutions, however, and are quite well-prepared in their fields, they may actually be wasting their first two years in lecture conference courses. Faculty members are currently debating this question; students are often too busy using what time they have to consider whether or not they are wasting...
...Force ROTC unit here dropped 49 members of this year's junior class because they could not fly and didn't come under the limited quota of non-flyers. The Army unit has not yet curtailed its enrollment with such severity, but the threat has existed since the Korean war ended, and the scare flares perennially. Thus it would seem more reasonable for the Air Force and Army to instruct their first an dsecond-year students in the instruct their first and second-year students in the general, basic areas of their programs rather than in the technical aspects...