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Another such example was that set by Charles H. Taylor, whose wartime activity almost resulted in a visit to Kirkland House by General Omar Bradley. Taylor went into the army in 1942, and was assigned to the editorial branch in Washington, where his job was to aid in collecting and disseminating intelligence reports and bulletins, writing reports on how to use captured weapons. He worked in this capacity with Tony Lanero, the Scotty Reston of his day as chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times...
When the army set up "G-2," an historical branch of military intelligence, Taylor was assigned to it for obvious reasons. Under Colonel Kemper, now headmaster of Andover, he helped develop a system of field men attached to GHQ, and ficial records through interviews with the troops. In the European Theatre alone there were over 200 field men attached to GMQ, and Taylor was one of them...
According to Taylor, "one of the great public servants in the war" was his own colleague in the History Department, Coolidge Professor William L. Langer '15, who directed the Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services. Starting in 1941 under "Wild Bill" Donovan, Langer helped organize what he calls a "super-university," a group of highly qualified experts on foreign affairs, experts that knew other countries inside out from personal experience and years of study. One of the first few in OSS--which was barely organized by Pearl Harbor--by the end of the war he had a staff...
...Research and Analysis Branch of OSS became part of the State Department; in fact, the research division of that department is a direct descendant of Langer's group, while the entire top level intelligence system (CIA) was sired by other branches of OSS. The work done by Langer and his group became instrumental in setting up governments of occupation, and it was not until 1946 that he returned to the University...
Certainly one branch of the University exempt from the charge of overisolation in a stultifying academic community is the Faculty of Design. The courses in the Graduate School of Design and the Department of Architectural Sciences are singular within the University for their orientation towards learning as a process of active participation in original, creative work...