Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canadian Board of Grain Commissioners offered him the job of chief engineer. Howe declined: "No, thanks. I've never seen a grain elevator." But when the offer was renewed, Howe took out his Canadian citizenship papers* and left Nova Scotia for the West...
...Werner Richter, 63, is not only a longtime anti-Nazi, he is also a U.S. citizen-the first ever to be elected head of a major German university.* A onetime full professor at the University of Berlin, he was driven out of Germany by the Nazis, took out citizenship papers in the U.S., has been teaching on U.S. campuses (Elmhurst College in Illinois, Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania) since 1938. It was only on a temporary basis that he returned to Germany after the war-in the hope that he might help to build up her universities again...
...judicial system is operated by the student without outside supervision, although the members of the faculty do act as bailiffs, constables, clerks, and, occasionally, court reporters. The members of the freshman and sophomore classes are called upon to act as jurors, in connection with the required course in Good Citizenship. As they become more versed in the legal system, Open students become lawyers during their Junior year, and the top scholars of the class take over judgeships for their last year. Trials seldom take more than a few hours, and appeals, though not mandatory, are permitted...
Born in Berlin in 1918, Wolpe (pronounced Volpay) grew up in Paris and was made stateless in 1934 when the Nazis revoked the citizenship of all German Jews living outside the Reich. He went to work as a coal miner at nineteen and later got a job on an Antwerp pier...
...with a brand new citizenship and six months back pay, John Wolpe sailed for North America. A veterans' counselor advised him to take college aptitude tests and he placed as a sophomore at the University of Manitoba. He graduated with top honors and came to Harvard on a fellowship in the fall of 1949. As a teacher here he rapidly became a favorite, for his sections were among the livliest and most informative in the French department. At the same time his own graduate studies netted him an unbroken and awesome string...