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...Commenting on the U.S. shortage of scientists and engineers, President James R. Killian Jr. of M.I.T. observed that the crisis is not a matter of numbers alone. "There are many areas of technology," said he, "that are now closed books to those engineers lacking creative powers or to those whose training or analytical abilities never carried them beyond the superficial methods of handbook engineering . . . Employers are not just looking for 'bodies' with degrees . . . [They] are pressing the colleges for men with a more fundamental, integrated education in science, engineering and the humanities . . . [They] want men . . . with the power...
...comes prepared with waterwings; for a moat encircles our ivory tower. Here surely is the function carried out. As for the most itself, its purpose is at present rather recondite. Possibly a return to the feudal system is desired. But then, the question arises as to whether President Killian would be comfortable, and, accessible, atop his coal-black charger, girdled in steel armor by the edge of the moat...
...James R. Killian, Jr., president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver three lectures on "The Role of Science in National Security" at the Summer School this August, William Y. Elliott, director announced yesterday...
...made its contribution to the industrial welfare of the South. But Duke itself does not want to be the servant of one region alone. Its alumni include Vice President Richard Nixon (LL.B., '37), former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean (LL.M., '32) and President James Killian of M.I.T. (Trinity 1921-23). Its 5,011 students come from 41 different states and 30 foreign countries...
Many of the witnesses ducked the dangerous problem of security. But a few eminent ones pulled no punches. President James R. Killian Jr. of Massachusetts Institute of Technology deplored "what sometimes seems to be a preoccupation with security procedures and policies at the expense of scientific progress . . . There has been, unhappily, a deterioration in recent months in the relationship between Government and science ... Members of the scientific community are clearly discouraged and apprehensive...