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Provost Buck noted the completely changed and changing character of admissions policies, and realized that Harvard faced a possible loss of its pre-war balance. In his 1946-47 articles in the Alumni Bulletin, he warned that too many applications were "running to type" and he claimed that...
...pre-war years Conant was noted as much for his anti-Communism as his anti-Nazlism. The latter was then more fashionable issue, however, and thus Co- nant's rejection of a scholarship offer from Nazi publicity man "Putzi" Hanfstaengl '09 caused a national uproar. Conant ignored it and proceeded to send a representative to ceremonies held at Heidelburg University. Accused of inconsistency, Conant pointed out the difference: Hafstaengl represented a party "which had struck at the principles we believe to be fundamental to universities throughout the world," while Heidelburg represented what had been attacked by this party...
...libraries have been restocked and the liberal arts programs are back to a better than pre-war condition, but the technical programs are lagging behind, Kuang added...
Other scientists in the Collier's project are Dr. Wernber von Braun, German rocket expert and present U.S. Army guided missiles chief: Dr. Joseph Kaplan, professor of Physics at U.C.L.A.: Heins Haber, of the Air Force's department of space medicine; and Willy Ley, a founder of the pre-war German Rocket Society...
...slowly shook the snow off his trousers. "O.K., I guess," he murmured and again took a position behind a rear fender, this time attached to a battered pre-war Ford. Throwing his weight behind the car as the driver gunned the motor, Vag was immediately enveloped in a cloud of oily black exhaust. But he clung valiantly to his post and the car edged slowly into the middle of the street. Long after the others had zoomed off to Wellesley, Vag was still standing in the empty parking space, coughing carbon monoxide and shaking another load of snow...