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...Second War further impaired the tutorial system, and in the post-war years undergraduate dissatisfaction grew as the plan became more impotent. Then the "Bender Report" resulted in a decentralized Dean's Office (the Allston Burr Senior Tutors) and the concept of group tutorial. As an alternative to the expensive system of individual tutorial, group sessions were perhaps the best solution which could be expected. Certainly they are better than no tutorial...
...Economic Welfare. After the war, he was elected to Parliament and, as one of a group of young Socialist intellectuals, rose to the secretaryship of the Ministry of Fuel and Power. There, and as Minister for Economic Affairs and later Chancellor of the Exchequer, he held key posts in the post-war Labor government beset by economic dislocation at home and in Europe...
...rape, to pillage and to lay waste the once-gay Danube city of Budapest. This time they were Russian Communists, and close behind them as they marched came another army of political agitators, experts of the secret police, and a parasitic host of Hungarian expatriate Communists. In the first post-war election held on Nov. 4. 1945, the Communists came in a bad third, with only 800,257 votes to stack up against the 2,688,161 votes of the democratic Smallholders Party, which was led by Bela Kovacs and Ferenc Nagy...
...Post-war Provincialism...
...pedantry seems particularly adapted to the Harvard community, in which freedom is the optimum. But, the rapid growth of the Bishop Rhinelander Foundation must, of course, also be ascribed to the recent revival of interest in religion everywhere. Mr. Kellogg sees the basis of this interst in a sudden post-war consciousness of an enduring conflict between East and West. He feels that the two world war served only as preparatory grounds-wells, each of which subsided when people returned to the comfort of their richesse. The Russian threat, however, seems destined to continue throughout our lifetimes, and, he says...