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...Since college should be a place where a student can read, grow, and expand," Leach continued, "and is the beginning and not the end of education," a program in defense work could provide a trained group of people who could go into the Defense Department as a career...
...dearth of training facilities for defense personnel was understandable until the end of World War II, Leach went on, before Great Britain "began to lose its place in the sun and the United States and Russia began to emerge as the major postwar powers." The post-war change became apparent when 60 to 70 percent of the annual budget--equivalent to 15 per cent of the gross national product--was allocated to defense work...
...Leach concluded the letter with a challenge to the President. As the need for a defense training course became more apparent, he related, the universities had an obligation to readjust quickly to meet the need. "And no place in the country has a better bag of resources" for doing...
Pusey's answer, through Dean Bundy, was nothing but a polite brush-off. They agreed that the idea was "a very good and very interesting one." But the job got no further, and Leach was forced to launch the program without financial aid. Both the Law School and the Graduate School of Public Administration listed a seminar on defense in their 1954-55 catalogues, and Littauer subsequently formally assumed sponsorship of the program...
...When Leach started his second year with the seminar this fall, he had come a long way. Instead of only 60 books from his personal library, he had 1,550 pages of reading prepared by last year's students. "Some of it is good, and some very bad," Leach comments. Army Col. Grank A. Osmanski, a Business School student, formed a student group which handled administrative details and preparation of literature for the program last year. "Osmanski literally saved the entire project," Leach entusiastically states. Now Leach's staff, available since the Ford grant, prepares and distributes reading for each...