"In a fairly short space of time you can, if need be, turn a chemist into a fighting man; but you cannot turn a fighting man into a chemist."
In these words Vice Chancellor Sir Hector James Wright Hetherington of the University of Glasgow last month advised the U.S. about drafting technical, scientific and professional students.
The warning went apparently unheeded in Washington until last fortnight. Then Purdue's President Edward Charles Elliott, chief of the Professional & Technical Division of the War Manpower Commission, got a resolution from an official engineering committee for the immediate but temporary deferment of students in recognized engineering...
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