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Word: doktoren (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each student had had to appear before an admissions committee. The committee was tough on grinds and narrow specialists ("Germany has had enough of bookish but purposeless Herren Doktoren"). It also rejected one boy who hopefully emphasized that his grandmother had been an Aryan. But it did accept several Communists-"otherwise," explained a professor, "we could not truly call ourselves a free university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Freedom in Berlin | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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