Yale v. Harvard

Yale and Harvard talked last week about their plans for postwar education. On one point they were agreed: government financial aid must not threaten academic control. Then they parted:

Yale's President Charles Seymour announced that veterans going to New Haven would attend not Yale College but an Institute of Collegiate Study, where college life would be adapted to war-weathered students. Summer vacations, dropped for the duration, would be restored, because year-round schooling is "unprofitable" or "disastrous." Since Yale is not equipped for vocational training, it will continue to stress the humanities.

Harvard's President James Bryant Conant dismissed the notion of teaching the humanities to "any considerable portion" of the 10,000,000 veterans. Since returned soldiers "will be in a hurry," Harvard will function all year round. Veterans uninterested in or inept at "book learning" may get a year of vocational training leading to industrial jobs.

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