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...least three out of four guys...had either joined the ROTC or the NROTC," Dee says...
...Navy took over Eliot and Kirkland Houses to house V-12 and Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC...
...manning the varied duty stations involved with sailing and fighting a man-of-war at sea were maturing and broadening experiences of educational value. Within three years of graduation I was called to active duty, almost six months before Pearl Harbor. Late that summer six of us from that NROTC class were aboard ships in the same convoy dodging Hitler's U-boats in the North Atlantic. Our Navy and our country needed us, and we were well enough trained to serve competently for the four years it took to win the war. I spent nearly four years...
...community. According to the Handbook for Students, Harvard aspires to be a "community idealiy characterized by free expression, free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others and openness to constructive change." After four years of contact with the Navy, I cannot fairly say that the NROTC program espouses those values. Any endorsement of a group without similar values weakens Harvard's claims to those defining characteristics...
...addition, the editors showed their ignorance of our situation by calling for a continuation of Harvard's "banishment" of ROTC. In fact, since Harvard officials ingraciously threw NROTC off campus in 1973, the Navy hasn't shown the least interest in renewing this arrangement. Christiana B. Huffaker '87 MIT-NROTC Battalion Executive Officer Stephen J. Smith '87 MIT-NROTC Battalion Operations Officer