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Miss Arendt referred to the post-war climate in Germany--where those personally innocent during the Nazi period all admitted to their "collective guilt" while the real criminals showed no remorse as "the quintessence of moral confusion." The concept of collective guilt, as opposed to individual guilt, is "senseless," Miss Arendt said, and only serves as an effective "whitewash" for guilty individuals to hide behind...
Owen was chairman of the History Department from 1946 to 1955, except for a two year stint as chairman of the committee on General Education. Often called one of the "quiet administrators," he led the Department during the difficult post-war days, when an influx of veterans swelled the enrollment of the College...
...parliamentary seats for a comfortable 70-seat margin over the right-wing National Radical Union of former Premier Constantine Karamanlis, who exiled himself to Paris three months ago. A spellbinding if sometime demagogic orator, Papandreou, 76, won Winston Churchill's admiration as Greece's first post-war Premier, is a wily, popular anti-Communist who can work with Greek leftists without raising their hackles as Karamanlis did. Papandreou has salted his top Cabinet posts with fiscal conservatives, is pledged primarily to rural redevelopment and to raising the standards of Greek education. With Greece's attention focused...
...increase was not unexpected by the admissions office. As early as 1962, Fred L. Glimp '50, Dean of Admissions, announced that he expected the number to go up 15 per cent by 1965. Doermann attributed the rise in the number of application primarily to the post-war "baby boom" and suggested that there are more requests for financial aid because of the tuition increase and the improved contacts with schools containing students from families with low incomes...
During these same 25 years, however, while depression, war and a long inflation boosted costs and held back physical expansion, the size of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had increased more than 50 per cent. Undergraduate enrollment rose from 3200 in 1930 to a post-war high of more than 5500 in 1948. In 1956 the influx of veterans subsided, and enrollment dropped to 4500. Still, 2,666 upperclassmen were living in facilities designed to accomodate 1,846, and 843 freshmen were crammed into living space designed for 557. More than 300 students could not be housed in University...