Word: leached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Law School professor has made a start at filling the gap. Lanky balding W. (for Walter) Barton Leach, 55, brigadier general U.S.A.F. Reserve knew much of his broad subject firsthand. A onetime secretary to the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lawyer Leach became an operations analyst for the Army Air Forces in World War II served as Air Force legal counsel through postwar congressional hassles over unification and the B-36 bomber. Last year he got the university's permission to set up a graduate-level course on national defense policy, began the experiment in September...
...Leach, the students were quick to interrupt Historian Emme and one another with questions and observations, soon had the seminar sounding like a congressional committee hearing. What were the Germans' key mistakes? Why were the British so short on fighter aircraft when war began? What lessons can the U.S., as yet untested in air defense, learn from Britain's ordeal? Primed with facts and background, the students kept verbal exchanges short and to the point, built up enough discussion to keep them arguing and learning long after class...
...hard work getting civilian students interested in national defense? At least three of Bart Leach's students have already decided on civilian careers connected with defense - the Bureau of the Budget and the Pentagon. Moreover, his students predict that the course's enrollment will easily triple next year...
...Leach believes that an "academic break-through" rather than the usual gradual development is necessary, because of the pressing need for defense study. No new courses will be offered next year, but he has suggested possible future instruction ranging from undergraduate study of the Korean crisis to a graduate seminar on the scientist in defense...
...greatest need of the new program is for trained experts in teaching, research and writing, Leach feels. Such men must come from professional positions, he adds, since there are few academic experts in the field...