Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the global conflict of World War II fresh in their minds, post-war Harvard students and Faculty grappled daily with international issues from communism to world federalism, arms technology to European reconstruction, arguing with the same intensity with which today's students debate identity politics or affirmative action...
While the class of 1947 could cherish the euphoria of being the first to learn of the nation's plan for European reconstruction, the class of 1948 spent their senior year watching the nation work out the day-to-day details...
...captain Vincent P. Moravec '50 lent his campus celebrity status to the cause, leading the charge as the head of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan. In March, the Band led a torchlight parade before a 300-person rally in support of speedy implementation of the European Recovery Program...
...more immediate level, the Student Council took up the issue of the European food shortage. After President Truman called on the nation to curtail food consumption and conserve grain in late September 1947, enthusiastic members of the Council spent months wrangling over the implementation of a University-wide conservation program...
...still memorable for Vagts. He remembers a history class on the European Renaissance when his professor, Michael Karpovich, walked in and announced...