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...democracies on the defensive, he is sure that not only will we need have no fear of the Miraculous Mudjiks, but they need have no fear of us, as we are gradually seeing the light. A more reserved optimism is shown by Professor Kotschig of Smith, who discussed "Educational Reconstruction." He describes the encouraging abundance of natives, exiles, and hyphenated Americans who are qualified to reconstruct the minds of Europe's enslaved out of the post-war chaos (a chaos which Kotsching is the sole contributor to foresee.) However his belief in German willingness'to learn strikes...
Julian Huxley, in the current New Republic, supplies a remedy for the seemingly short-sighted wartime policy now followed by American universities. His article points out the fallacy of confining colleges to programs of military preparedness with no thought of the post-war task of helping to organize and reconstruct the world. Huxley suggests that Harvard be transformed into a "United Nations University" devoted to turning out trained men for the period of reconstruction and recovery. The proposed program of study would include both general training at the undergraduate level and specific instruction in the graduate schools and specific instruction...
During the past two years some 400 homicides or other fatalities of suspicious character were investigated by the Department. And in all these cases Dr. Moritz and his assistants obtained evidence which helped establish guilt, innocence, or enabled law enforcement authorities to reconstruct the circumstances of the death," the Bulletin said...
Discussing post-war economy at a meeting of the Youth Group of the League of Nations in Lowell House Junior Common Room. Forman proposed that similar movements be carried out by an international association organized by the United States and Britain to have complete power to reconstruct world trade and to stabilize business cycles...
They are not on the defensive; they are determined to reconstruct. There is a mountain of anger throughout the country against the ideas and the men who brought the country to September...