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...qualify, a student must be in the top third of his high-school senior class, take an aptitude test, then pass muster before a board of nine college deans and presidents (among them: Barnard's Dean Millicent Mclntosh, M.I.T.'s President James R. Killian Jr., North Carolina's President Gordon Gray). As for which of the private colleges will get the benefit of the new fund, Henry Ford had no idea: that is a matter that the students will decide for themselves...
Over the next five years, said President James Killian, M.I.T. would need "at least another $10 million," and it might not be a bad idea to aim for $20 million. He thought M.I.T. had better start going after it right away...
Previously the same week, Dr. James R. Killian, Jr., M.I.T. president, had disclosed that a school of humanities and social studies would be instituted. The two new schools will provide a needed emphasis to courses already listed in the M.I.T. curriculum...
Another speaker, President Killian stressed M.I.T.'s role in providing scientists and technicians who, he says, contribute greatly toward peacetime economy even when the United States is rearming. He also said that research and the fast obsolescene of scientific equipment were the main causes of then high costs ina operating a scientific university...
...association's recommendations were based on a report prepared by a group of leading educators headed by M.I.T. President James R. Killian, Jr., who receives an honorary degree here today...