CLARK HODDER "RESIGNS" UNDER FIRE

In a surprise move William J. Bingham announced the appointment of John P. Chase '28 as head coach of the Harvard hockey them in place of Clark Hodder '25, whose resignation under fire was accepted yesterday. Fred Maloon, Jr. 1G.B., Hodder's assistant, was also ousted in the shakeup.

Bingham could not be reached last night for clarification of the action, which apparently resulted from a training break granted by Hodder at the conclusion of the team's three-game "social" series with Princeton at Lake Placid this vacation.

The result of this relaxation of rules in which both Harvard and Princeton skaters participated was a considerable amount of property damage, which brought no credit to either college in the eyes of the outside world.

As yet no similar action has been taken at Princeton, where the Tiger coach, Dick Vaughn, and his squad are involved at least as deeply as the Crimson contingent.

Suggests Training Break

Apparently Vaughn suggested a mutual training break at the end of the series, and after some consideration, Hodder agreed, feeling that such an action would improve the feelings of the two teams, both a little strained after three days of hard hockey. At the time the damage occured Hodder was in bed.

Hodder's successor is an experienced hockey player. While in College, Chase won six major H's, three in baseball and three in hockey. In his final year he captained the sextet, and in 1932 he also headed the U.S. Olympic hockey team. Aiding him will be George "Skeets" Canterbury '01, coach of Crimson goalies for many years, who returns after half a season's layoff.

A somewhat similar upheaval brought Hodder to the position which he held until yesterday. His immediate predecessor, Joe Stubbs, left because of charges that his team trained at the Ritz Bar. Since the fall of 1938 Hodder, previously Stubbs' assistant, has been the top hockey mentor. various skills required,"

He predicted that the government will require certain types of students to remain in academic institutions to become specialists of a type which are as much needed for the war effort as are officers or soldiers.

Warning that unlimited volunteering will lead to the wastage of highly trained manpower, President Conant said, "Clearly men who have completed years of training in certain specialties such as medicine should be prohibited from entering combat service."

Would Limit Volunteering

Such services as the submarine and air forces must be recruited on a volunteer basis, but "the national government may at some later time prohibit students with certain talents from enlisting," President Conant said.

He proposed a new accelerated program for the training of doctors, permitting a student to be admitted to medical school after 12 months of college study.

After admission to medical school he would remain in college to complete his pre-med work, but "he would be an enrolled member of a recognized group of students who were refused admission to the combatant forces because they would eventually be needed elsewhere--in the medical corps of the Army or the Navy."

Emphasizing the moral problems facing individual students because of the war, President Conant said, "In this as in preceding wars, it seems that able bodied young men as yet untrained as specialists must largely determine their own futures.

"The decision is a difficult and trying one for a young men to make. But each individual must make it for himself, for he will have to live with himself and face the consequences of he decision for the remainder of his days.

"The question of whether or not he can be of greater service by volunteering for active duty, or by taking another path, can only be settled by each person for himself--settled on the basis of the best evidence he can command and in the light of his own convictions.

College Should Not Advise

"Until the government alters its present policy, the duty of the College at all its students, as I see it, is to give them the maximum of information and the minimum of advice."

Looking into the future of the country's colleges, President Conant predicted that they will pass through a period of greatly curtailed enrollment and extreme financial difficulty.

In this connection he stated that the cardinal principle of the university's budgetary policy must be the protection not primarily of its invested Capital nor its plant, but of the "first asset of a university," its faculty