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University Professors Meet

APR 01, 1951
Emergency issues discussed
Physics Today

The American Association of University Professors, during its thirty‐seventh annual meeting at Cleveland in March, endorsed compulsory military service during the emergency, but at the same time called for a definite time limit on such a program and for provisions insuring “the education, prior to military service, of an adequate number of the best qualified students in all areas of higher education”—not only in scientific and technical fields, but in the humanities and the social sciences as well.

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