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...Lawrence Lowell '77, who followed Eliot in 1909, was a Harvard government professor who had dabbled in Boston politics and the law. When James Bryant Conant '13 was tapped to lead Harvard in 1933, he was a Harvard chemistry professor...
Katz's thesis might be enhanced by some institutional memory. A prominent academic who was a former president not only of Harvard but of The Crimson, James Bryant Conant '14, was a leading advocate of Universal Military Training prior to and during Korea. He objected to student deferments urged by many academics, politicians and college students. In his memoirs, Conant characterized deferments as "undemocratic...and would establish a privileged class." Since not every able-bodied young person was ever needed, Conant supported a random lottery "in the interests of fairness...
During the debate on granting the President authority to use force against Iraq, Gerald B.H. Solomon, the ranking Republican on the House Rules Committee, lambasted antiwar protesters. They are, Solomon intoned, "unshaven, shaggy-haired, drug-culture poor excuses for Americans." Then Solomon aimed his rhetorical blunderbuss at Bryant Gumbel, of NBC's Today show, who had expressed surprise at polls showing that most Americans felt the government was telling the press all they needed to know about the war. Quoth Solomon: "Evidently, ((Gumbel)) can't bear the idea of an American victory. He wants another American humiliation, another Vietnam...
...Harvard-dominated first period ended in a 1-1 tie after junior Ginny Simonds scored only 46 seconds after Shannon Bryant put the visiting Bruins ahead...
First Period: 1, B, Shannon Bryant (Jane Corcoran) 1:21; 2, H, Ginny Simonds (Sandra Whyte) 1:56. Penalties--B, Lucia Murphy (holding) 9:10; B, Siri Lindley (elbowing) 12:12; Simonds (roughing...