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...hand for Father Harvard. And 38 presidents, deans, and professors had come in behalf of the 41 daughter campuses that Yale-men had either founded or first presided over (among them: President Harold W. Dodds of Princeton, James P. Baxter of Williams, Deane W. Malott of Cornell, Detlev Bronk of Johns Hopkins...
James R. Killian, president of M.I.T., Lee Dubridge, president of the California Institute of Technology, J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, and Detlev W. Bronk, president of Johns Hopkins, are among the others named by the President...
First of all, said he, the university was about to launch the biggest fund-raising campaign in its history-$75 to $100 million over the next 25 years. More important, it was embarking on a radical new plan for higher education. "We propose," said Bronk, "to make this a university in which the sharp distinctions between undergraduates and graduates will be eliminated ... in which students will be given the opportunity to progress as rapidly as they are able." It was a plan that would overhaul traditional requirements from top to bottom, slash away department lines...
...later years Johns Hopkins continued to grow (present enrollment: 2,680), but it lost its commanding lead. Since 1949, when he became its sixth president, dynamic Detlev Bronk has been re-examining the scheme of Hopkins education...
...This Is the Problem." Under the Bronk Plan, Johns Hopkins will go after the ablest students it can find. (Part of the $75-$100 million Bronk wants will go for broadened scholarship aid to attract them.) Unlike the University of Chicago, which also lets students go as fast as they can, Hopkins will not require any standard set of courses unless a student wishes them. A first-year man may start right out taking graduate physics and senior German if he is qualified. He will not have to aim for a degree, can plan his curriculum (with the help...