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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closed-Door Policy. "This country . . . during the 19th Century was able to develop its energies and its riches thanks to the unending stream of men from Europe . . . [but] now has . . . closed its doors in their faces, treating them as tiresome and undesirable beggars...
Other subjects dealt with flow in the same stream; expansion of the R.O.T.C.; further integration of the graduate schools with the college; the survey of manpower, before noted; using the war to jolt hoary, over-conservative doctrines out of academic institutions. Every thinking individual at Harvard, agreeing or disagreeing, can use President Conant's words as a springboard for answering the vital question of how to ensure that education shall be both "relevant and enduring...
...painters, rushed completion of a new five-unit air-conditioning system, supervised the refurbishing of crimson satin wall coverings and rich Aubusson rugs in the Itamaraty Palace, Brazil's Foreign Office. He conferred daily with President Vargas, with taut, ascetic U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery and with a stream of other diplomats, some of whom left the Palace with fresh paint on their coattails...
...evolved a panacea, full of the gusty notions of Oswald Spengler. He proposed that the battling nations abandon their differences, present a united front against "foreign races." Among those he described as inferior aliens were the Mongols, the Persians and the Moors, who he feared would corrupt the blood stream of the west. That bloodstream, he pointed out, was our most precious pos session...
...side-wheeler Brinckerhoff, veteran of 41 years on the Hudson River, carried the quiet group through the river-damp darkness, across the stream and back. Its searchlight picked out Poughkeepsie's Main Street. Its steel-hooped sides girded against the groaning wooden racks. The Poughkeepsie ferry, tarnation old, almost as old as the nation (it had crisscrossed the Hudson since 1798), had made its last...