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...teachers, since their university is practically a living protest against Communism, tend to form the most democratic academic body in West Germany. Fraternities and dueling societies, long the stronghold of nationalistic, anti-semitic, and aristocratic traditions, exert almost no influence on the Berlin campus. Of the few which exist despite non-recognition by the University, a number have abandoned all objectionable traits. Anti-Americanism, according to Gunter, is also sparse, since Berliners in general have felt particular gratitude toward the U.S. ever since the 1948 airlift. The University in particular is thankful for continued U.S. financial support, especially from...
...sophomore status, Gunter has been allowed to take a majority of his courses here in the graduate schools. He finds these fairly similar to the German curriculum, especially in respect to seminars, which are found at all levels at the Free University. General education and distribution requirements do not exist in German universities. Their function is fulfilled by a rigorous secondary school program in which almost all courses are compulsory and students graduate at the approximate level of U.S. College sophomores...
AMONG the nations today obviously exist two antagonistic camps: one is the anti-imperialist camp, that is, the camp of democracy and socialism, with Soviet Russia as its leader; the other is the imperialist camp, that is, the camp of war, anti-democracy and capitalism, with the United States as the leader...
...characters are a bustling "congress of all kinds of that multiform pilgrim species, man . . . farm-hunters and fame-hunters, heiress-hunters, gold-hunters, buffalo-hunters, bee-hunters, happiness-hunters, truth-hunters and still keener hunters after all" these hunters." The multiform hunters are uniform prey; they exist only to be duped...
...athletics can exist without crippling intellectual life, and indeed they contribute to its growth. The smaller issue is the time spent at athletics. It would be fine if one actually spent the hours and minutes saved from sports in serious reading, but there are so many way of wasting time, the chances are you will find one to occupy the time saved. The academic average of men in the big sports is not below that of the College. One man on last year's varsity crew graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and is now at Cambridge working for a degree...