Word: post-war
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...have always felt themselves to be set a little apart from the rest of the world. They have a distrust, which is not the same as dislike, of foreigners which would be incomprehensible to Americans accustomed through many years of immigration to accepting racial differences without surprise. But the post-war world has provided much evidence of a relaxation of the old British attitude. Self-sufficiency was obviously impossible to Britain and the Commonwealth in 1945. The minimum involvement in Europe consistent with European stability and British defense was Britain's aim. That minimum was a substantial effort...
...action. Some Americans criticize him because, unlike his predecessors, he does not keep one eye constantly cocked towards Uncle Sam's checkbook. Others accuse him of selling out because he would not gamble the fate of his government on the passage of E.D.C. But Mendes-France is the first post-war French premier who has followed a policy based on a broad conception of his country's national interest. Too much has been made of the "irrational nationalism" which buried E.D.C. Few people in this country are aware of the reasoned debate which filled the French press for two years...
...Amherst, however, is that life around the grassy, tree-dotted common is not balanced at all. Since the conclusion of the War, the intellectual side has held a recognized and clear upper hand. This victory was signalled in 1945 when separate alumni and faculty committees, in planning for the post-war college, voted to abolish the fraternity system. Tradition proved too strong for such a drastic measure and the fraternities were merely reformed. But the victory has been none-the-less secured...
...combined social and intellectual societies of a hundred years ago to the present purely social societies was completed. In the decade immediately preceding World War II the fraternities' contributions to the student and to the college were of such an extremely negative nature that from many quarters it was urged that the organizations not be allowed to return to the campus after the War. When the two parallel and independent reports considering the post-war college were submitted early in 1945: "Amherst Tomorrow" by the alumni committee and a report on Long Range Policy by a faculty committee...
...little known fact but a source of pride to all Amherst alumni and faculty that its survey of post-war education slightly preceded Harvard's celebrated and supposedly original "Report on General Education." Remarkable point about the Amherst program is the number of its observations and recommendations that later appeared incorporated in Harvard's report. The "new curriculum" went into effect with the class entering in the fall of 1947, and now serves as the basis of Amherst's realistic approach to education...