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Harvard President James Bryant Conant '14 was a respected president, but not extremely visible at Harvard. A chemist, he spent much of his time advising President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 on scientific issues. Whiteside, who became acquainted with Conant as a graduate student, said he was "indescribably remote" during Whiteside's undergraduate years...
...together," he says. "To me it will never be quite the same. In many ways it's more modern and there are nicer facilities, but I always look back with longing at that time."Courtesy Harvard ArchivesPre-Pearl Harbor: Harvard students protest outside the office of Harvard President James Bryant Conant '14 against increased U.S. involvement...
...famine that snuffed out 300,000 lives in 1992 may have passed its peak before the Marines landed. But there is no doubt that the American-led intervention saved many. Julie Bryant, a Red Cross nurse outside Bardera, recalls that often children were trundled in in wheelbarrows, too weak to walk. "Look," she says, pointing to a boy registered in her logbook. "That child should have been dead. Now there is such life here: they argue, they play football." As she speaks, a group of kids runs past chasing a pet baboon with a red cross painted on its bottom...
...last year at the helm, and coach Restic would ride off into the sunset like all coaching legends do--Stagg, Rockne, Bryant, and now the greatest of them all, Restic...
Katherine had two things going for her besides pride: a long-term relationship with Leroy Bennett, the father of most of her children; and the support of her strong-willed cousin Nancy Bryant, who lived next door with her own large family. That meant that an adult was usually available to supervise the kids, an increasingly urgent task during the 1980s, when drug sellers began working Euclid Street...