Major Bruce 'Peterson, director of personnel for the Pre-Commission Education branch of the Air-Force, said last month that 134 applications for ROTC units are already on hand from other schools.

No decision has been made on granting units to any of those schools, Peterson said, but Air Force ROTC would be unlikely to expand to Harvard unless conditions were as satisfactory there as at schools that had applied earlier.

Spokesmen for each of the services said that ROTC units now in operation were more than sufficient to meet active duty requirements.

where Bok's surprise speech will eventually lead is unclear. Radical groups plan to forestall any pro-ROTC campaign although little evidence exists that any pro-ROTC campaign would be a strong one. Conservative groups may back Bok's statement although Bok claims to have no plans to introduce a Faculty proposal to study ROTC.

Bok may simply have underestimated the sensitivity of the nerves he touched by making even an offhand reference to bringing Harvard ROTC back to life--especially by suggesting that ROTC was a casualty of excessive political pressure and not of genuine academic, moral, and political concerns of the Faculty and students.

If he does propose a plan, Bok will be walking on the thinnest ice of his Administration. A June 1969 ROTC final asked, "Should officer procurement come from the campus through ROTC, or should another type program be used?" Explain."

If Bok's answer is "ROTC" and his explanations are flimsy, he will have missed one question--and flunked the whole test.