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    "ocrText": "- 4 -\nbeing returned to one or the other of the armed services. In addition, it is\ncontemplated that a small percentage of those who complete an undergraduate\ncourse would be permitted to continue on inactive duty as students while\ncompleting graduate or professional studies in certain designated ficlas such\nas medicine or nuclear physics. In my judgment, it would be unwise to spell\nout in the legislation any particular field or fields of study in which students\nmight be permitted to study. Instead, such matters should be settled by two\ndevices. (A) At the undergraduate level, very careful consideration should be\ngiven before placing limitations on the student as to field of study. This\npolicy is dictated by the fact that a large proportion of undergraduate students\ndo not have a specific field of interest at the age of entrance to college,\nand second, by the fact, as demonstrated by the experience of the second world\nwar, that we do not know which fields of study may emerge as critical as the\nwar continues. If this policy of permitting freedom of choice on the part of\nthe study of his field of study does not produce a sufficient number of men\nin the highly technical scientific ficlds, the President then can under his\nauthority as provided in the proposal take such action' as is necessary to\ncorrect the situation. (B) For graduate and professional students beyond\nthe bachelor's degree, it would seem wise to consider setting quotas for each\nfield of study, and to permit individuals to continue in student status for\nsuch study only within these quotas. By the time a man has reached the\ngraduate or professional school level, his vocational choice is relatively firm.\nIf it isn't, he has no business continuing as a student under this plan.\nThis procedure of allowing free choice of field in undergraduate study\nwhile prescribing specific quotas for professional training at the graduate\nlevel would seem to be in the national interest. It is one of several possible"
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