Chapter 5: The Postwar Period: 1946-1950 

The Institute 

With the end of hostilities in Europe and the Pacific, MIT faced the task of reconversion to peacetime activities. This called for the demobilization of wartime projects, the organization of instruction for returning veterans and other students, the rebuilding of a long-range educational program, and the planning of research, as well as the necessary physical and financial arrangements. The wartime constraints were being removed and prewar goals reestablished, but the reconversion was far more than a return to the status quo of 1939. 

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