age, but also because your committees reporting upon other questions in 

 President Roosevelt's letter are making recommendations for assistance to 

 post-doctoral investigators. For our part, we are of opinion that the basic 

 problem, at least for the next decade, will be to find more young talent 

 and to give it a chance to develop into more first-rate investigators than we 

 now have. 



That is the problem at which this report aims. At present the opportuni- 

 ties for education beyond high school are accidental to too large an extent — 

 determined by the accidents of geography and economic income. We seek, 

 in this constitutional Republic, 'as respects science and engineering, to train 

 for the national welfare the highest ability without regard to where it was 

 born and reared and without regard to the size of the family income. 



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