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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practically all schools, public and private, have been seriously lowered by the recall of retired teachers and the issue of emergency teaching certificates to inexperienced persons. With teachers allocating themselves out of the educational scene, an all-time high for rural school closings has been reached. A 22.2 per cent decrease in, teachers college enrollment gives little hope that they will be able to bridge the gap. In Illinois alone over one thousand schools have closed. Mississippi officials report that if teachers continue to leave at the present rate, 30 to 40 per cent of the schools in the state...
...last question showed the most variation, ranging from the 80 per cent by Wellesley and Simmons, to the 35 per cent of Harvard men who thought "religion should assume a more important role in the post-war world." Fifty per cent of B. U. thought it would, against 70 per cent at Harvard who thought it would...
...have changed; and undergraduates, sobered by the war that an unrealistic "realism" made inevitable, have come to realize that the blessings of peace are bestowed only upon those ages and peoples who assume its responsibilities. The poll of post-war opinion in Harvard indicates that some ninety-six per cent of those answering are in favor of "some sort of world council or international union after the war"; overwhelming majorities are committed to maintenance of the peace by international waging of war and a Permanent International Police Force. And Harvard is not alone in its espousal of collective security...
...last question showed the most variation, ranging from the 80 per cent by Wellesley and Simmons, to the 35 per cent of Harvard men who thought "religion should assume a more important role in the post-war world." Fifty per cent of B. U. thought it would, against 70 per cent at Harvard who thought it would...
...Ehrlich-Alter executions was an unfair one, particularly because the Soviet military court which tried the two men cannot, for obvious reasons, release details of the trial. However, a few general facts are known, facts which the Polish embassy in Washington has vigorously attempted to suppress. If ninety per cent of Harvard's undergraduates are uninformed on this incident, Mr. Passano should have undertaken to explain to them these facts...