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- pseudolus 8y agoI'd certainly take issue with the opening paragraph of the article to the effect that "Older readers know how the leading American universities, which had risen to world-class status by the 1930s and 1940s, were upended by the traumatic campus events of the late 1960s and their aftermath." There's no doubt that US universities had risen in quality during the early part of the 20th century but they were still outclassed by institutions in Europe in most scientific disciplines. It was the advent of WWII and the destruction it visited upon Europe as well as the massive spending on R&D during the early stages of the Cold War that propelled US universities to the heights they enjoy today.