Records of the Harvard Chapter of the American Veterans Committee, 1946-1951, undated.
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Harvard University
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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...
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Princeton University's Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program was started in 1946 amidst a wave of enthusiasm for the ROTC that followed World War II. It joined the Army ROTC unit on campus, which had operated since 1919, and was followed by the formation of an Air Force ROTC unit in 1951. By the 1950s however, faculty opposition to the degree-credit granting programs had risen high enough to merit their reformation, and special University-taught courses were added to the curricula....
American Veterans Committee. Harvard Chapter.
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The American Veterans Committee was founded in 1944, during World War II, as a liberal veterans organization. Targeted in anti-communist campaigns in the late 1940s, it lost significant membership, but continued through 2007, when the last two chapters closed. Originally part of the Cambridge Chapter, a separate Harvard Chapter of the American Veterans Committee was established in 1946. Although the chapter was not restricted to undergraduates, it had 830 undergraduate members at its peak. The c...
