Word: students
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Various student organizations offered to help the State Department clean house, and the Harvard National Student Association delegation took on a batch of about 5000 of the letters, coding them by sex, age and interests of sonders; during the process some of the sorters abstracted many of the better letters to follow up on their...
...writer from the Russian zone has been smuggling out his replies through friends crossing the border in Herlin, although so far he has received American letters uncensored. He is a student who tutors grade-school science during off-hours in his small East Baltic town; he says any belief that the German people are capable of governing themselves is a "joke." The student, who refuses to allow his name to be published because of possible punishment by Russian occupation authorities, cites the Welmar Republic, under which "the German country, with her 65,000,000 inhabitants, was not able to find...
They run to considerable length, neatly panned out in slanting German script; most of them simply describe everyday life--"very ordinary"--and ask questions about America and its people. Many call for student exchanges to enable the countries to "vanish international misunderstanding." And nearly all constantly thank the students who they claim are doing so much "to show us the need to democracy...
...German inverted sentence structure, for which all the correspondents are apologetic. Many of the writers are surprised at the glimpses of life in America they have picked up through letters, films, and contact with occupation armies; one writer who claims four years of English, describes his surprise at a student's preference for Beethoven and Brahms. "I am surprised to hear that you are fond of hearing classical music. I cannot think that many Americans like to hear it. I guess for them there is no great music but Jazz. So you are likely one of the seldom who hear...
Monro will continue to serve in his present capacity as counsellor for veterans and there will be no change in the present operation of his office. His primary concern in his new position will be with undergraduate problems, particularly scholarships, student aid, and employment...