Three Historical Appraisals: Pioneering 9 



For the country the ONR was able to take prompt and 

 effective steps to restore research activities for scientists and 

 engineers returning to their institutions, by providing for their 

 research equipment and by helping with their salaries and 

 those of their graduate student assistants. But more than this, 

 in mutual consultation with academic and industrial scientists 

 and administrators the ONR evolved policies and procedures, 

 as I have said, which pioneered the way for increasing partici- 

 pation of the Federal Government in a comprehensive pro- 

 gram of scientific research throughout the country. By this 

 means the Federal Government has been able to enter into a 

 most effective partnership with academic and industrial scien- 

 tists and engineers, and their institutions, for the prosecution 

 of research in the national interest and in the interest of 

 science. 



