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Speaking before the Phillips Brooks House Association dinner, Tillich, one of six University Professors, discussed pre- and post-war Germany and the effects that Fascism and Nazism have had on the German people. He commented that the McCarthy movement was not allowed to spread, because "America is too big a country to be dominated by such a man and by such a cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tillich Describes McCarthy's Influence As 'Potential Fascism' in PBH Speech | 2/10/1956 | See Source »

McNiff, who was graduated from Boston College and received his Master's in library science from Columbia, has made libraries his life work. He joined the staff of Widener in 1942, where he brought about many improvements to feet the influx of post-war students. The reserve book policy was liberalized, and many duplicates of popular books were provided...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Behind the Stacks | 2/8/1956 | See Source »

...editorial, have appeared, giving further proof of an Advocate renaissance. A symbol of this growth and energy is its new building, being built on a combination of tradition (the purses of alumni) and enterprise (undergraduate wheedling). The building may well represent the end of a period of prolonged post-war anemia. Hopefully, the Advocate's reawakened spirits will further the arts as much as conviviality

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Advocate: Danger Was Once Sweet | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

Just criticism of the Till trial did, of course, exist, Held as it was in an almost exclusively agricultural county, the trial could not avoid having a jury composed of dirt farmers, who have had less exposure to post-war shifts in attitude than any other group in the state. This fact was noted from the onset and motivated the prosecution's legal maneuvers to have the trial moved to an adjacent county where industry has brought a softening of racial ill-feeling...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: The Negro in the South: II | 12/2/1955 | See Source »

Nonetheless, Marquand has undoubtedly been greatly responsible for some outdated and rather absurd popular conceptions about the interests and caliber of the post-War Harvard undergraduate...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

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