Faculty Will Decide On Revision of Army ROTC

Dean Bundy announced yesterday that he will try to get faculty and Army approval for an experimental ROTC program which might be adopted nation-wide if it proves successful at the College.

The plan calls for a 12-week summer camp and a cut in College ROTC class room work to three years. The program is outlined in the report which was filed last week by a subcommittee of the Committee on Education Policy formed to study the ROTC curriculum. The changes will be proposed at the next Faculty Meeting early in May. If passed by the faculty, Bundy will then contact the Department of the Army to get military backing. The plan would affect only the Army ROTC.

Lt. Colonel Trevor N. Dupuy, professor of Military Science and Tactics, initiated the proposals with a suggestion to Bundy last December. The subcommittee, with Donald C. McKay '28 as chairman, was formed to investigate Dupuy's ideas.

Under the new program, a student's work would begin with his sophomore year. He could take a full course in a new subject such as "Modern Military History." These courses would be taught extensively by members of the regular faculty. Full credit would be given for each of the three courses required of the ROTC cadet. These course would also be open to any student in the College for full credit.

Between his sophomore and junior year the ROTC member would take his summer instruction. It has not been decided whether the time would be split into two six weeks periods or taken during one summer for 12 weeks.

No Freshman ROTC

In the additional six weeks of camp, the cadet would learn the manual of arms, foot drill, map reading, command experience, and similar subjects.

The Committee recommended eliminating the freshman year from the ROTC because "the advantages of acquiring a reserve commission by the ROTC route might be more apparent to the student at the end of his freshman year at college than in the first weeks of his arrival when many other matters are demanding his attention."

The 18-page report also lists several advantages to the Army in the proposals. Summer camp instruction could be far more intensive. Also the number of instruction hours in the added six weeks would be double the time now available in a year of the ROTC program. Also the number of instruction hours in the added six weeks would be double the time now available in a year of the ROTC program.

Combat Branch Connection

Though specialized instruction would be limited to summer camp, the committee suggests that the Harvard unit re- tain its identification with the Artillery. There were two reasons for this decision: the Committee agreed with President Lowell, who said when the College instituted the ROTC that Harvard should be connected with a combat branch. Also there is no sign that artillery men will not be necessary for a long time to come. Since all the specialization would be included in the second six weeks period of summer camp, however, the program would be much like the "Branch General" programs in which cadets do not specialize.

When this entire program is established, a motion will also be brought before the faculty to create a permanent Army ROTC Sub-committee of the Committee on Educational Policy. Dupuy and representatives of the academic fields concerned will try to coordinate the program with the non-military curricula.

Since the six additional weeks of camp will teach the technical aspects of ROTC, the three years of class courses will be broad and humanistic. Though the committee has detailed a complete plan of instruction, the faculty will only be asked to approve a program of this type and not the committee's specific recommendations.

Among the new elements in the current program would be a proposed course in "Military Affairs in Western Society since the Eighteenth Century." This course would be much the same as that recently devised at Princeton and given by the history department there for both the ROTC and other students.

Another section of the program would be devoted to "Problems of Leadership," with lectures by members of the Law School Faculty and the Social Relations and Psychology Departments