they i . edt eee ae Le a regard as - ms © a pape eat nek mae catands we ttaee tebe ee a service, and free speech, which they regard as a right. But there seems to be a developing consensus that, if some recruiting is to be ended, all recruiting (excepting perhaps by educational institutions) must be ended; to give administrators arbitrary power to distinguish between different government agencies and firms would be discriminatory and could lead to continuing inequities. ® Research. Harvard, unlike many universities, does not permit classified research on university time, but a facul- ty memberis free to use 1 day a week for any outside consulting he desires. Nevertheless, there are charges that the university is “complicit” in the war because of some of its research commitments. No one really knows the facts about the broad scope of research conducted at the university, and some faculty members suspect that there may be ways around the university’s abso- lutist rule. This area of study is now the most ambiguous, but could be extraor- dinarily important. © Free speech and forms of protest. The issues raised by the McNamara and Dow incidents may be reviewed again. There is a school of thought that be- lieves Harvard should lay down definite guidelines about the kinds of demonstrations that are unacceptable and the punishments they will carry. The college administration has avoided this Waterman, First NSF Head, Dies at 75 Alan T. Waterman, first director of the National Science Foundation and former president of the AAAS, died on 30 November at the age of 75, following a brief illness. Waterman headed NSF from its founding Communication with Mainland China; Advisory Committee, Pacific Science Center, and Board of Trust- ees, University Corporation for At- moOspheric Research. Waterman was a member of many in 1951 until..1963. In the last year scholarly organizations, and recipient of numerous awards including age, but continued to serve under a his work with OSRD,and the Presi- of his service,he was past the government’s compulsory retirement special order from President Kennedy. Waterman completed both his graduate and undergraduate work at Princeton. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1916 he becameaninstruc- tor in physics at the University of Cincinnati. During World War I, he spent 2 years with the Science and Research Division of the Army Signal Corps. He then became an assistant professor and later an associate professor of physics at Yale. During World War II he served with the Office of Scientific Research and Development, holding several positions, including chief of the Office of Field Service. In 1946, Waterman became deputy chief and chief scientist of the then newly established Office of Naval Research. He wentdirectly from ONR to NSF. Since his retirement he had been active in various advisory and administrative activities, serving on numerous boards and. committees, including the Board of Trustees, Atoms for Peace Awards; Advisory Board, Center for Strategic Studies, Georgetown University; Liaison Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. Library of Congress; Special Consultant to the President, National Academy of Sciences, and Chairman, Committee on Scholarly 8 DECEMBER 1967 the Presidential Medal for Merit, for dential Medal of Freedom for his leadership in government support of basic research. He also held the Cap-tain Robert Dexter Conrad Award, from ONR, and the Public Welfare Medal from NAS. Recently he re- ceived the Karl Compton Award from the American Institute of Physics. On the death of Waterman, his successor at NSF, Leland J. Ha- worth, issued a statement, which said in part: “... When Alan Water- man took the helm of this fledgling National Science Board, established the basic philosophy still used in the Foundation, whereby scientists themselves largely determine the di- rection and progress of basic re- few in Govern- search. The Foundation early established the pattern of giving strong basic research in the total spectrum support to research at the Nation’s agency in 1951, ment recognized the importance of of the Nation’s scientific and technological enterprise. Alan Waterman was one of those few: his work at the Office of Naval Research had already established that agency’s leadership in providing financial support for basic American science. When he came to the Foundation he began to build another organiza- colleges and universities where much of the best basic research and all of the training of future scientists, en- gineers, and physicians is carried out. To the widely endorsed concept of providing strong support to ad- vanced students already committed to scientific careers, the Foundation, could develop strength commensu- under his leadership, added the next logical step of assisting improvement of scientific education on the Nation’s needs. “Following the precepts set forth der. Thus the Nation is also strengthened through a better informed tion through whose efforts science rate with its promise and with the in the famous report by Vannevar Bush, ‘Science, the Endless Frontier,” as embodied in the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, Dr. Waterman, in concert with the earlier rungs of the educational lad- citizenry, with an_ ever-increasing depth of understanding of what science is, and what part it plays in the lives of everyone... .” —G.M.P. 1293