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Entering into the fray of college educators over the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (the GI Bill of Rights) President Conant in his annual report to the University trustees yesterday urged revision of the Act to assure professional training at government expense for veterans of exceptional ability...
...weakness of the present GI Bill, he explained, is that it bases educational opportunity on length of military service and not on "demonstrated ability." The bill should provide advanced education for "a carefully selected group; the length and types of such education to be related to the national educational deficit caused...
Unlike the pseudo GI celluloid tripe dished out by Abbott and Costollo. "Hargrove" is an easy to look at picture of a home town rookie who can't get "on the ball" but who has enough natural intelligence to add four and four and get more than a headache. Slapstick is present, of course, but is held to a minimum as poor Hargrove progresses from cleaning garbage cans at Fort Bragg, North Carolina to cleaning garbage cans aboard a convey bound for action...
After only 27 minutes of debate the Senate passed the compromise GI Bill of Rights yesterday. The bill is likely to pass without debate in the House tomorrow in order that it may become law during the present session...
...self-teaching program costs the soldier two bucks, which covers any number of courses. When he finishes his course, the GI may take a USAFI examination, and if he wants to study further after discharge, he can submit evidence of his self-administered work to any high school or college for credit...