United States Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps service dress uniform, ca. 1950.

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United States Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps service dress uniform, ca. 1950.

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A service dress uniform with black wool suit coat and trousers. The coat is double-breasted with six gold-colored buttons, and two gold fouled anchor pins on the lapels. A diamond-shaped felt badge with "USN ROTC" and an anchor embroidered on it is attached to the left sleeve. Arthur Arundel's name appears on a label inside the collar. The uniform was presumably worn by Arundel during his ROTC years at Harvard, 1947-1951.

2.5 cubic feet (1 flat box)

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Harvard University Archives.

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United States. Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps

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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....

Arundel, Arthur W., 1928-2011.

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