Word: bryants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge but for the G.I. Bill of Rights and Harvard's liberal policy of measuring veterans' achievements, rather than their formal preparation, as a basis for admission. But these newcomers fit neatly enough into the scheme of a university that has become-under its 23rd president, James Bryant Conant-increasingly national in its influence, interests, emphasis and student body...
...James Bryant Conant's outstanding characteristic as an educator is that he is interested in education-which is a point of view not as typical of college presidents as it might be. He looks on education as "a social process." as something very much a part of the community. In Emersonian fashion, he inveighs against "the recluse who has almost ceased to be a man, and whose labors in the library or the laboratory differ from stamp collecting only by the courtesy of a name." Says he: "Personally, I like the word 'relevance.' ... To my mind...
...when he was 40, the Harvard Corporation elected him to succeed retiring President A. Lawrence Lowell (see BOOKS). Nobody was more surprised than James Bryant Conant himself. He still wonders at times "why the Corporation elected me, and why I took the job when they...
...Bryant Prescott...
...James Bryant Conant...