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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Do you approve of a more generalized education? Do you believe that six required courses is too many in a college curricula of 16? Are you in favor of reducing the emphasis placed on 'majors' to promote a more general education in broader intellectual fields? Would you support a summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Record Runs Poll On Harvard, Yale Proposals | 8/30/1945 | See Source »

First Task. MacArthur had a clear conception of his role. First, he was going "On to Tokyo," fulfilling the motto he himself had proclaimed only six months earlier. Beyond that, he told President Truman, he would "do everything possible to capitalize this situation along the magnificently constructive lines you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SURRENDER: Job for an Emperor | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Japanese (and U.S.) emphasis on the atomic bomb as a decisive surrender factor did not help matters. There was danger that the Japanese would attribute defeat to a single scientific advance, fail to realize that they were beaten before Hiroshima dissolved. The occupation authorities, or a future Japanese government, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Harvest | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

¶ He is head of the state religion (Shinto). But he is only the third of his line of 124 emperors to be so. State Shinto and the emphasis on Imperial divinity are modern creations of an expansionist Japanese regime.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victory: The Surrender | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

The Core Idea. While agreeing that both principles are essential to a free people, more & more educators today are apprehensive that Jeffersonian specialism has run away with the show. But well aware that flight from the technological facts of modern life is impossible, few have urged drastic changes. Nor has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard Asks a Question | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

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