Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only the crassest gynophobe who will carp at the decision contained therein--namely, to allow "a small number of unusually qualified girls" into the Law School next autumn. The enlightened will remember, with Dean Griswold, that "women have come a long way since they were first admitted to the American Bar Association in 1918," and further, that "many now serve with distinction on the bench...
There are many problems which yet remain to be overcome. The threat to peace of the American home posed by even a relatively small number of women trained in litigation is an imponderable which must weigh heavily on our minds. The picture of a breakfast table transformed into a court room, with husband and wife engaged in bitter legal debate over the eggcups, is almost too frightful to conceive. But, in spite of the great danger involved, the fair-minded observer must conclude that the Law School's step has been well taken. Joint Instruction--never must the word...
Western Europe suffered a major invasion this summer. As soon as American schools and colleges lot down their bars in June, students started swarming across the Atlantic by the thousands, looking for culture, education, and other things...
Cunard's "Scythia" and "Samaria" were former iuxury liners which had been pressed into service as troop transports during the war and had only partly recovered. So were Holland-American's "Volendam" and "Tabinta." The United States Lines ran three little war-design ex-transports with the ominous names of "Marino Tiger," "Flasher," and "Shark." None of the boats were exactly models of comfort--the Cunard ships, which had had a capacity of 500 in their luxury days, were carrying up to 1400 this summer. And there were ugly rumors that the reason half the ships sailed from Quebec...
...mass movement of mankind has its historians and its philosophers; so did this summer's migration. A Columbia professor and a group of students went to Europe just to write a book on American students in Europe. And a Social Relations man was running a complicated poll to find out why everyone was going...