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Scores of names had already been suggested for their places. Everyone from Chief Justice Fred Vinson to ECA's Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman had been mentioned as a possible replacement for George Marshall. Ex-M.I.T. President Karl Compton suddenly popped into the picture as a possible next Secretary of Defense. As available as Available Jones was Harry Truman's old crony Mon C. Wallgren, who had just lost his job as governor of Washington. And there was even talk of bringing back the old sulphurous, incorruptible Harold Ickes...
...suggesting an alternative, the President holds the same views which prompted his support of the Compton Report on Universal Military Training in 1947. As an educator he sees advantages in the so-called Swiss plan: subjecting men from 18 to 28 to three or four summer camps of two or three months each and evening drill, presumably once a week, for ten years. If he wished, the eligible youth could volunteer for two years immediate service instead...
Four hundred faculty members at Massachusetts Institute of Technology were hastily convened to hear the news. President Karl T. Compton, 61, was leaving for a new job after 18 years: he would succeed Vannevar Bush as boss of the nation's military research organization, the Research and Development Board. Faculty members, some with tears in their eyes, rose to salute Compton after he made the announcement. Then Compton introduced his 44-year-old successor, Dr. James R. Killian...
...likes hard work, hiking and collecting the works of George Meredith, Killian has been Compton's right hand for nine years, M.I.T.'s vice president for the last five. Most M.I.T. students think they have to study hard enough already ("Tech is hell! Tech is hell!" says the school yell), but Killian hopes to add to their academic burdens more civilizing courses in liberal arts. Also, says Killian solemnly, "A little gaiety might be appropriate...
Another recent change has been the formation of a partially civilian Board of Consultants, headed by Karl Compton, ex-president of M.I.T. After a study of the institution in 1945, this board submitted a report which concluded; "...the four years of college can best be devoted to education in the general fundamentals, enlargement of social vision, and development of cultural appreciation. Because of the variety of duties and of leadership which fall to the lot of the Army officer, to provide a foundation of this type of liberal education becomes increasingly the mission of the Academy...