title: Excerpts from the University of Pittsburgh proposal for the purchase of a three-stage Van de Graaff accelerator.
abstract: As part of today's quickened effort to upgrade the quality and quantity of nuclear structure physics research, many program proposals are being made by colleges and universities both here and abroad. Mindful of the high degree of interest in these proposals, High Voltage Engineering Corporation is planning to publish excerpts from some of them in the hope you will find them both stimulating and informative.