*The Faculty could only approve or disapprove of teaching personnel in ROTC nominated by the military--an outside establishment--for Faculty appointments.

*The relationship of ROTC staff members to the military and to the government suggested that ROTC instructors might hesitate to openly question U.S. policy. Furthermore, the Faculty could not offer its usual protection to any ROTC instructor under pressure to restrict his public statements.

BOTH FACULTY resolutions requested that the University compensate ROTC students for any need created by the termination of the program.

All three services' ROTCs required at least four ROTC half-courses, some form of drill, and a number of regular Faculty courses to be approved by the commanding officer of each student's ROTC unit. Each service provided allowances to help cover books and required uniforms.

ROTC final exams, still on file in Lamont Library, offer evidence of the lack of rigor and scholarly detachment which the Faculty committees saw as necessary for Arts and Sciences teaching.

Exam questions included, "For instructional purposes, the hand salute is a (one, two, or three) count movement?" and "The Harvard university campus library's two basic bibliographical tools are the-----and the-----."

An aerospace science exam question read, "The human mind is a wonderful organism. It has four abilities. The first two enable us to 'know things.' These are the ability [sic] to-----and to-----. Our other two mental abilities enable us to 'use the knowledge we perceive and retain." These are the ability to [sic] to-----and to-----."

One navy exam offered ten points for correctly identifying war as an art or a science with appropriate reasons.

Finally, it seemed questionable whether ROTC staff would grade answers objectively to questions such as "Should the U.S. halt the bombing of North Vietnam?"

F.X. Brady, former professor of Naval Science, said in 1969 that 75 non-ROTC students were taking NROTC courses. He said he thought most were looking for non-demanding, tuition-free ways to make up failures in other courses.

Despite the apparent intention of the Faculty in February to reduce ROTC, at the very least, to an extracurricular program, the Corporation announced it would deny ROTC credit, but that it would not be bound by Faculty recommendations on ROTC's use of Harvard facilities.

FORMER PRESIDENT Pusey announced on March 26 that the Corporation "would do everything possible to keep ROTC."

Franklin L. Ford, former dean of the Faculty, wrote secretly to Pusey on February 11 labeling the resolution of his own Faculty "a very badly framed, gratuitously unpleasant, and basically confused pronouncement."

By April, liberal Faculty and students were attacking Pusey and Ford for attempting to circumvent the clear intention of the Faculty's original resolution. It was not the Faculty's position, but the degree of cooperation by the Corporation that changed as pressure mounted from February to April.

Bok's surprise statement in June--his first public discussion of the ROTC issue outside of question-and-answer periods after alumni dinners--and the enthusiastic support of alumni to his speech led to immediate speculation that Bok had plans for maneuvering ROTC again behind Harvard lines.