Special studies have been made by lative deficit in the number of stu- 



the Institute of Physics on the effect dents receiving Ph.D. degrees, in the 



of war upon the training of research several physical sciences and engi- 



personnel in the graduate schools. neering, which will continue and 



These indicate that there is a cumu- grow until several years after the war: 



Chemistry 



Engineering 



Geology 



Mathematics 



Physics 



Psychology 



Biological sciences 



Totals 



Accumulated 

 deficit, 1941 

 through 1944 



240 



148 

 63 



161 



251 

 96 



665 



1,624 



Estimated 



deficit, 



1945 



550 

 82 

 50 



100 



160 

 84 



725 



1,751 



Total 1941 



through 



1945 



790 

 230 

 113 

 261 

 411 

 180 

 1,390 



3,375 



Probable 

 deficits, 



1946 

 through 



1955 



4,460 

 730 

 317 

 939 



1,589 

 550 



4,910 



13,495 



Total prob- 

 able deficit 

 due to war, 

 1941 through 

 1955 



5,250 



960 

 430 



1,200 



2,000 



730 



6,300 



16,870 



Proposals for enlarging the number 

 of students entering the graduate 

 schools to be trained for research 

 must be considered in relation to the 

 probable demand for trained research 

 workers as expressed in available jobs. 

 Thus, necessary as it is to enlarge the 

 number of graduate students in order 

 to produce the relatively few research 

 students of exceptional ability, the 

 danger of an oversupply of trained 

 research personnel must be kept con- 

 stantly in mind. The unhappy plight 

 of scholars in Europe after the last 

 war when there was a surplus should 

 not be forgotten. 



Likewise proposals for recruiting 



more college students into the physi- 

 cal and biological sciences and enlist- 

 ing more graduate students for train- 

 ing in research in the physical and 

 biological sciences should be viewed 

 in the light of the over-all needs of 

 the country and of the requirements 

 in other fields of research and in the 

 several professions. If too many of 

 the limited number of high quality 

 students are absorbed by fields of sci- 

 entific research, research in the social 

 sciences and in the arts and humani- 

 ties may be jeopardized with probably 

 unfavorable reactions upon scientific 

 research. 



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