Word: casner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growing lack of confidence in Mr. Casner's office has begun to alarm 20 University Hall itself. This clearing house for Army and Navy press releases has professed an innocent ignorance of the sources of undergraduate distrust. It has referred part of it to an expectation of upset or vacillating students to have Mr. Casner make their decisions for them; and the element of truth there is undeniable. But this alone obviously does not explain the widespread dissatisfaction. It has begun to get around that would-be officers are almost automatically told about the Business School, the Marine Corps...
...from hearing about excellent risks. The Navy has not officially announced that the Japanese course at California will be repeated, nor has the Army announced any future sessions of its metrology course at M. I. T. But the officials connected with both have apparently told all inquirers but Mr. Casner that they are convinced in their own minds that the courses will be repeated again and again unless we beat the Japs next week. Is there any reason why the Fine Arts concentrator who says "What can I do?" cannot, be told that in the past Math 2 plus...
...fault cannot, however, be laid at Mr. Casner's feet. For a man with a heavy teaching load, with administrative duties at the Law School, and with time-consuming connections with the National Guard, he has done an almost super-human job of filing away the bits of information that V-7 and the Marine Corps have bothered to send. There is no reason why he should be expected to make a survey single-handed of the myriad opportunities open to college men, when even the Public Relations office has not found time for it. Any one who has tried...
Either the University expects Mr. Casner to be a one-man army on his own time, or else it isn't interested in running anything more than a clearing house where students who don't read the papers can see all the press releases in one neat pile...
...interested in enlisting in the Army at this time in order to continue this course of study may obtain applications for enlistment from Professor Casner and the Student War Service Information Bureau, from Dean Westergaard at the Graduate School of Engineering, or from Professor Kemble in the Physics Department...