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...there are many factors which qualify General Marshall for the job so there are several which severely disqualify him. First and fundamentally, he will be a military man in a civil post. As deTocqueville observed over a century ago, officers, in democratic armies "contract tastes and wants wholly distinct from those of the nation, a fact which may be thus accounted for: Among democratic nations that man who becomes an officers severs all the ties that bound him to civil life; he leaves it forever, and no interest urges him to return to it. . . . As the wants of an officer...
...faith in certain specialized types of men-men from Missouri whom he knows and trusts, and in high Army officers whom, he, as a one-time major in the artillery once knew and respected. With Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith now directing American affairs in our most crucial foreign post, Moscow, and General Groves still in possession of a potent voice in the control of atomic energy, the appointment of General Marshall to the second highest position in the Government is the piece of brass which breaks the camel's back...
...Engineers, today's meet marks their return to formal post-war grappling after a lapse of four years. Weak in at least three positions, the slide-rulers have one outstanding matman in Whit Mauzy who is scheduled to fill one of the middle weights...
...Post-war expansion of the University's science facilities will pass a milestone today as 200 experts gather for the official opening of the glistening new Mathematical Computation Laboratory. The modernistic structure has arisen during the past summer and autumn between the Pierce Engineering Laboratory and the veterans housing project on the erstwhile Jarvis tennis courts...
Burrhus Frederick Skinner, professor of Psychology at Indiana University and noted experimental psychologist, will take over the William James lectureship next September, succeeding, among others, the English philosopher Bertrand Russell, who occupied the post in 1940-1941, the University announced last week...