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...Twining's other flank was the Air Force's General Tommy White: "I completely agree with the President's concept that separate ground, sea and air warfare are gone forever and that peacetime preparation and organization must conform to this fact. It is essential that our combat forces be organized into truly unified commands and that our strategic and tactical planning be completely unified." But what of the "dangers" in the legislation? asked committee members...
First, the concept of one's "duty as a student" is less familiar in the United States than elsewhere. It is common for a European or Asian to identify himself with student interests until he is 30 years old or more...
...House tutorial system is laudable. The other aspect of the proposal is distinctly not. By limiting course choice for the pass-candidate, one regiments the minds or at least the training of the students, who for some reason are considered inferior to honors candidates. The concept of course restriction denies that a non-honors student can do valuable independent study. It implies, unjustifiably, that once a man fails the first qualifying examination, he is more or less doomed to academic oblivion...
Tutorial 99, Wilcox suggests, does not always provide the opportunity for really independent study, since the student is graded and must work within a field. "Tutorial is more a different pedagogical method from formal courses," he said, "rather than a different concept...
Open Invitation. "If ever there was an open invitation to the concept of the 'man on horseback,' this proposal is it," he intoned. The President, he declared, was trying to set up "a Prussian-type supreme command" that would eliminate military responsibilities of the service Secretaries, grant too great flexibility to the Defense Secretary in spending congressional appropriations-in effect, shut out Congress' watchful eye. "I know of no concept more dangerous...