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...Henry M. Wriston, 11th president of Brown University, will retire shortly...
Although no definite date for Wriston's retirement has been given, Harold B. Tanner, university chancellor, expressed hope yesterday that a new president would be chosen by June. Wriston was appointed...
Saltzman praised the Wriston committee's proposal for the integration of the foreign service with civil service employees as a solution to another of the former's immediate problems; that of creating a larger and more competent diplomatic corps. He predicted that if the plan is carried out the openings in the field would increase to 400 or 500 annually...
...scholarship program for qualified students already enrolled in college has distinct advantages over an Annapolis-type institution for Foreign Service candidates alone. While the Wriston proposal calls for an expenditure of two million dollars a year for approximately 750 scholarship grants, that figure is economical compared to the sum that would be required to establish and maintain a separate Foreign Service Academy. The State Department has held that prospective Foreign Service officers can gain as adequate a preparation for a diplomatic career in any of the nation's accredited college as they could in an academy of their...
Certain aspects of the original Wriston proposal should perhaps be revised to ensure that the scholarship program accomplishes its objectives. The present plan would give members of Congress the power to make most of the final scholarship selections. A better method might be for a three-men committee in each state, representing the Foreign Service, education, and the public, to choose the scholarship holders, as a minority of the Wriston Committee suggested. Although the Wriston plan would award the grants only to students entering the junior year in college, qualified seniors as well might receive one-year grants...