Vets Swell Enrollment in NROTC; Bonney Announces 112 Openings

Proposing to fill 112 positions still open in the Harvard Naval ROTC complement, Captain Carroll T. Bonney, U.S.N., Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, announced yesterday provisions of the new Holloway plan for midshipmen and plans for admitting veterans to the advanced courses of his department. Fifty percent of the 108 men enrolled in the unit this term are ex-servicemen.

On the eve of moving from the wartime Naval Headquarters at the President's House on Quincy Street to the permanent Naval Science Headquarters at 28 Divinity Place, Captain Bonney explained that undergraduates could now enter the unit as regular, contract, or Naval Science students not working toward a commission.

Veterans Are Eligible

Veterans may enter Naval Science 2 or 3 by passing examinations covering the material presented in the elementary courses, while former V-12 men who were in good standing May 1, 1946, may enter Naval Science 2, 3, or 4 depending upon how much of the course they finished in the Navy.

Men entering the unit under the Holloway plan, which was passed by Congress in June, will be appointed midshipmen, USNR, and will have their tuition, fees, textbooks, and uniforms paid for by the Navy. Denoted as Regular Students, they will also receive a yearly retainer salary of $600, but will not be entitled to G.I. Bill benefits simultaneously.