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Dean Henry Chauncey last night suggested that Stimson's remarks emphasized the warning of the McNutt report of last week that college students could not be sure of finishing their course of study. Dr. Richard Leopold, acting head of the War Service Information Bureau, added that the Enlisted Reserve would still be advantageous under present conditions for students...
...educators heard tough talk from their Government this week. Gathered in Washington for a four-day Institute on Education and the War, 600 leaders of the nation's schools and colleges were directed to train their pupils in military fundamentals from grade school to college. Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt curtly told them: "There is no excuse for any young man or woman to be in college preparing for any profession not directly useful to the war effort...
...make such decisions are not in the new wartime civilian agencies: Donald Nelson's WPB, Leon Henderson's OPA, Paul McNutt's WMC, William Davis' WLB, the Henry Wallace-Milo Perkins BEW. For each of these men has a single segment of the problem to work on, each has shadowy authority stemming only from the President, and as often as not they are in conflict with one another...
...compromise, for the report just presented to the War Manpower Commission only repeats last year's worn generalities with a promise of better things to come. Designed to hurt no feelings, the report is remiss largely in what it omits. Even as a sketchy outline for more specific blueprints, McNutt's ten point program fails to strike at most of the basic evils in the current college muddle...
...colleges must divide their energies between a business-as-usual program at the under graduate level and an all-out training of military personnel with the balance of their facilities. Efficient training cannot start until the catch-as-catch can system of undergraduate deferment is ended. Meanwhile Paul McNutt's efforts to step on no toes may gain him the 1944 Democratic nomination, but it will not unravel the college snarl...