Word: 1940s
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More so than any time before, world events hadshaped the political atmosphere at Harvard in thelate 1940s. As veterans returned from active duty,the student body as a whole was older and moreexperienced than prewar and postwar classes...
...lingering insecurity of a world so recentlytorn by war also contributed to the "earnestness"of the late 1940s...
...graduate, remembering the excitement of TheGame in the late 1940s, says he was "shocked andamazed" to see that there were empty seats in theStadium at the 1998 game...
During this time enrollment at Harvard, after sinking to a wartime low, skyrocketed to almost double the prewar norm in the late 1940s. Veterans flooded the campus, making up over half of the Class...
...increase in enrollment due to the GI Billin the late 1940s marked a permanent shift inHarvard admissions. The pre-war norm of 3,500 wasforever discarded and enrollment consistentlyremained above...