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Despite emphasis upon accommodating veterans in the University, every effort will be made to accept a "respectable number" of non-veteran Freshmen coming directly from high schools next fall, Richard M. Gummere '07, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, said yesterday.
"We are going to try to take a respectable number of Freshmen from civilian schools," said Gummere in summarizing admissions policy. Our criterion for selecting these men will be exactly the same as before the war, but the number will be limited to just what we can accommodate."
"The work of the College Admissions Committee is also on the upgrade," said Gummere. "In addition to the responsibility for all new civilian enrollments, we must now deal with all the returning servicemen who held certificates of admission but were unable to take advantage of them before induction."
Gummere's two year term on the School Board ends on December 31. He was elected in November, 1943, in a campaign "that tires me even to think of now. In one night I had five political rallies to cover, everything from the Schoolmothers' Association to a local of the...
Gummere tried to maintain this attitude throughout his tenure of office. "I wasn't in there to present the case of any interest or group," he said. He freely admits that the school system was and still is, snarled with knotty problems. "But I didn't have to play politics...