ROTC NOT GENTLEMEN'S CLUB, OFFICER'S REPLY TO PLUMLEY

"Politicians are apt to say a great many things," stated an officer in the R.O.T.C. yesterday while refuting the charge of Representative Plumley of Vermont.

In hearlings on the Naval Appropriations bill in Washington Plumley labeled R.O.T.C. units at Harvard and Yale as clubs for gentlemen, but a student enrolled in Naval Science parrled with the retort, "If midshipmen at Annapolis are taught to be gentlemen officers, why not at Harvard?"

Naval Officers maintained that the course at both colleges is conducted the same as at the other five Universities which offer training.