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Justice, Truth, God. "The . . . reformation for which the world waits depends, then, upon true and deeply held convictions about the nature of man, the ends of life, the purposes of the state and the order of goods. . . . This means that we must reconstruct education, directing it to virtue and intelligence...
Both undergraduate articles somehow fail to click. "Rome Denied," by Peter Ward Fay '45 combines clever phraseology with a thesis that is neither original nor stimulating, for he holds that Italy's trials during the past seventy years are a reflection of a second-class power striving vainly to reconstruct the grandeur that was Rome. Samuel Perry '45, on the other hand, has an important subject but fails to express it well. Perry is defending the Negro press, an institution well worth both defense and encouragement, but whose existence and importance are virtually unknown except among its own subscribers...
...will this national character face up to total war? asks Author Mead. How can it best be drawn upon to fight now and reconstruct later? Some of her suggestions...
...ceremony formally welcoming them to the College, members of the second instalment of the wartime class of 1946 were told last night that Harvard had assumed a "staggering responsibility" in attempting the two-fold task of training them to win the war and preparing them to reconstruct the post-war work, all within the limits of the accelerated program...
...Even in the last war, Germany used steel for shell cases. World War I historians trying to reconstruct battle scenes could always spot German trenches by rusted cartridges lying around in contrast to the bright brass cartridges along Allied lines. Last week Buick said it had solved the engineering problems of steel casings and is going into large-scale production...