For Scientific Leadership

To help provide the U.S. with more and better scientific leadership, the Rockefeller Institute announced that it would open in Manhattan a graduate university for science students and research scholars. Each year 15 to 20 college graduates and doctors of medicine from all over the world will receive $3,500 fellowships, will spend a minimum of three years working either for a Ph.D. or a doctorate of medical science. The university will not encourage early specialization, but, says President Detlev Bronk, "as the students' interests develop, they will be led by their curiosity and urged by the faculty to spend not less than twelve months in study under leading scholars in two or three other universities anywhere in the world. We will defray the expenses."

Added Bronk: "In the spirit of research we will endeavor to preserve a flexible educational pattern and an adventurous environment for our students. We agree with Abraham Flexner, the great educator . . . 'As a democracy needs intellectual distinction, it would be fatal to exhibit too timorous a spirit.' "

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