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Our institution feels deeply the responsibility for helping to supply this need, 
and we are striving to produce more marine scientists. Interest in the marine 
science has risen sharply in the last few years. This is illustrated by the 
increasing numbers of inquiries from students desiring admission to our gradu- 
ate program. These have increased about tenfold in the last 9 years. 
Numbers of students desiring admission to graduate work in marine sciences, 
University of Miami 
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We cannot take more graduate students than we presently have, although we 
would like to enroll at least 100, and preferably more. In order to do this and 
still provide good training, we require the following: 
. Support for faculty. 
. Fellowships for students. 
. Classroom and laboratory space. 
. Equipment and supplies. 
. Ships and ship time. 
. Continued long-term research grants. 
It can be argued that these are all the responsibility of the university and 
that the citizens of the United States should not be expected to pay for pro- 
fessor’s salaries, laboratory equipment, and the other items. The recent report 
of the President’s Science Advisory Committee, entitled “Scientific Progress, the 
Universities and the Federal Government,” effectively disposed of this argument. 
This report is commended to the attention of anyone interested in scientific re- 
search and in higher education in the United States. 
The report emphasizes throughout the interdependence of research and gradu- 
ate education : 
“Tt is a fundamental contention of this report that the progress of graduate 
education and the process of basic research belong together at every possible 
level. We believe that the two kinds of activity reinforce each other in a great 
variety of ways and that each is weakened when ecarried.on without the other” 
and “The truth is as simple as it is important: Whether the quantity and quality 
of basic research and graduate education in the United States will be adequate 
or inadequate depends primarily on the Government of the United States. From 
this responsibility the Federal Government has no escape. LHither it will find 
the policies—and the resources—which permit our universities to flourish and 
their duties to be adequately discharged—or no one will.” [Italics theirs. ] 
The Institute of Marine Science in Miami was well staffed for the previous 
number of students, but in order to cope with the present and future numbers, 
support is needed to obtain additional staff and to release more of the time of 
scientists for this activity. 'The university, a private institution, cannot, un- 
aided, support the size faculty required for the task we have set ourselves. 
The university does not expect the. Federal Government to carry the full load 
and will always continue to carry a considerable part of these faculty salaries 
as well as the other costs, but a material amount of help is essential. 
The necessity of more fellowships in more liberal amounts has been stressed 
on many occasions, but deserves to be repeated. To quote the President’s Ad- 
visory Committee report again, “Graduate studies leading to the Ph. D. are very 
expensive, both for the university and for the student, and neither party is 
adequately supported. * * * Too many students simply cannot find the money 
for sustained full-time study and drop out, or take part-time jobs that delay 
their progress and flatten their spirits.’ The provisions in S. 901 for fellow- 
ships are welcomed, and are important parts of the bill. 
Physical space to provide classrooms and laboratories is one of the principal 
bottlenecks facing increased training of graduate students in Miami. Despite 
an increase from about 12,000 square feet of space in 1955 to a present 35,000 
square feet, we simply cannot accommodate more students because there is no 
place to put desks and chairs. 
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