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...been for the speech by President Detlev Wulf Bronk, Johns Hopkins University's 75th anniversary last week would have been like any other mildly retrospective academic ceremony. There were the usual distinguished visitors, wearing the hoods of great universities from Paris to Peking. There were prayers, speeches, honorary degrees, and a band that played the grand march from Aïda. Then up rose President Bronk to make some announcements about the future...
...side of a deferments plan is a strong group of the country's educators, including Presidents Leonard Carmichael of Tufts, former chairman of the National Security Resources Board, and Charles Cole of Amherst. It has also been learned that President Detlev W. Bronk of Johns Hopkins, advisor to several important government agencies, also will take issue with President Conant and will favor something like the Trytten plan over U.M.S...
...problem of getting educated men, and trained experts--doctors or radar men--into the Services. "Our strength as a nation is based on a diversity of skills," he says. "We need men in the army who are trained and can improvise and invent . . ." He thinks, along with Cole and Bronk, that U.M.S. would not be a success in keeping Services standards high...
Those sympathetic to the Conant proposals will not only be opposed by Trytten, Carmichael, Bronk and others; there is much strong pressure on Congress from large industry to work out a system that will insure deferment of engineers. Other groups are also already demanding privileges...
Both Cole and Bronk are known to disagree, with Conant on the grounds that deferments are necessary to keep trained men flowing into the Army and into civilian professions at the same time Cole is unable to make a public statement at present; he is obligated to Look magazine, for which he is writing the article explaining the anti-U.M.S. stand, Bronk, an adviser to numerous government agencies, cannot now speak on the record...