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...year-and-a-half old University policy of requiring veterans to accept war credits toward their degree will, generally speaking, be continued, Dean Hanford said yesterday, defending this decision in the face of recent criticsms alleging that under this system men were being forced out of College prematurely...
...Dean Hanford stated that the policy had been set at the beginning of the spring term in 1945 as a measure aimed at getting more people through the College, and that while exceptions have been made and will continue to be made on an individual basis, the basic rule will still be enforced...
However, three moves are currently being made to eliminate specific and individual injustices, according to Dean Hanford...
Second, extensions on the time allowed for honors theses have in several cases been recommended by the departments and approved by the Administrative Board. Applications for such an extension, Dean Hanford emphasized, are not automatically approved, since the possibility exists that some students would get a competitive advantage from working while carrying no other courses...
Present piles (at Oak Ridge, Hanford and Chicago) are kept cool, but power piles will run at high temperature. Among the reacting uranium rods of a power pile will circulate a chemically inert gas, hot as a dragon's breath, deadly with radioactivity. This will heat a conventional boiler, yielding high-pressure steam, which, the scientists hope, will not be too radioactive to use in a turbine...