Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...