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Died. Dr. Detlev Bronk, 78, former president of both Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller Universities and founding father of American biophysics; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. An advocate of curriculum reform, in the early 1950s Bronk inaugurated the Hopkins Plan, under which qualified undergraduates were allowed to take courses at the university's graduate school. He transformed the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research into a university by adding a graduate program that gave no grades and conferred only doctorates. He staffed it with a brilliant faculty that outnumbered the student body by 2 to 1 when he retired...
...clear whether the third complainant. William W. Nash Jr. '50, former professor of City and Regional Planning, will give oral testimony. If so, he would probably be called by the committee, and not by lawyers for the three professors not by Kilbridge's counsel, Detlev F. Vagts '48, professor...
...plan was devised by Detlev F. Vagts '49, professor of Law, and Malcolm S. Salter '62, assistant professor of Business Administration. Similar programs are in operation at Columbia, Stanford, and other universities...
Remaining Small. Under retiring President Detlev ("Del") W. Bronk, 70, the research center became a university as well. To inject "the vitality of youth that students bring," Physiologist Bronk set up a small graduate school in 1954, a year after he became president; in 1965 he had Rockefeller retitled from an institute to a university. Resisting the expansionist impulse, Bronk has insisted that R.U. remain small in order to concentrate on "areas where we can really excel." As a result, R.U. "appoints" no more than 30 new students a year out of the 170 candidates recommended for admission by scholars...
...Harvard alumni received medals. Others were Detlev W. Bronk, S.D. '53; Aaron Copland, D. Mus. '60; Walt Disney '28 (hon.), M.A. (hon.) '38; T. S. Eliot '10; Walter Lippman '10; Ralph McGill, LL. D. '60; Reinhold Niebuhr, S.T.D. '44; Carl Sandburg, Litt. D. '40; Dr. Helen B. Taussig S.D. '59; and Dr. Paul Dudley White...