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...should like to make a few comments on the suggestions which have appeared in the Crimson Mailbox to date concerning the replacement of President Conant. Both men suggested, Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Bunche, are great Americans and it would be an honor for the University to have them in the capacity of its President. However, I'm sure that they would both agree that this is not where they may best serve themselves and the world. Mr. Bunche has already indicated as much in his reluctant refusal of the Professorship which was offered him several years...
Instead, as Conant wrote, a return to more usual conditions has not brought a corresponding drop in expenditures. "Instead," he stated, "they rose rapidly and have continued to rise...
President Conant first hinted at the possibility of the rise in his report when he pointed to a 50 percent increase in the University's expenditures during the past 12 years...
...Conant also stated plans to cut down University enrollment by one thousand. This may coincide with the new rates next fall...
Support of Dulles' move to speed up committee action drew praise from ex-Governor Paul A. Dever. He said yesterday that an FBI probe is unnecessary since Conant, "having been so intimately connected with the development of the atomic bomb has already been more than adequately subjected to a test of his loyalty. Because of this, I see no reason for a delay of his confirmation...