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Tufts President Leonard Carmichael, former chairman of the National Security Resources Board, will oppose President Conant's plan for Universal Military Service, it was learned yesterday. Other educators, including Presidents Charles Cole of Amherst and Detley W. Bronk of Johns Hopkins, will also come out against U.M.S...
Last week, Johns Hopkins picked another sort of president, right off the campus Harold Stassen will run. He is Detlev Wulf Bronk, 51, a top scientist...
When Johns Hopkins asked M.I.T.'s Karl Compton to submit a list of candidates, he sent back only one name-Bronk's. Largely on Compton's say-so, the university scarcely considered its 100-odd other candidates. Johns Hopkins was getting a man who once advised universities to hold firm against those who thought they "should assume the functions of a trade school or provide entertainment for the masses," and against parents who, having failed to bring their children up properly, "insist that the university become a school for manners or an elite reformatory...
...History, which is rather uncertain, mentions a Jonas Bronk, or Bronck, either a Dutchman or Scandinavian, who was the first settler, around...
Only two men, Joe Murphy and John Bronk (the "Bronk"), a former trainer, claim to have worked the speedometer on the up-hill stationary bicycle up to fifty miles an hour, but many a bored athlete of renown has spent hours toiling along at 10 m.p.h. to limber up a stiff muscle...