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Florida. Conservative Democrat C. (for Cecil) Farris Bryant, 46, is a prosperous Ocala lawyer who was twice voted the state's most valuable man by Florida's Junior Chamber of Commerce, was judged by reporters to be the state's best legislator during his five terms in the house of representatives (his fourth, as speaker). Prim and bookish, Bryant is a Harvard Law School graduate, won both this year's run-off primary and the election with a surefire (in the redneck counties where he ran best) campaign pledge: No integration in Florida schools...
...number of well-remembered professors were members of the Harvard Faculty during the three years Cabot spent as an undergraduate. George Pierce Baker, George Lyman Kittredge, and Bliss Perry taught English Literature; Frederick Merk, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Frederick Jackson Turner interpreted History; Ralph Barton Perry taught philosophy; James Bryant Conant was then an assistant professor of Chemistry, and Irving Babbitt instructed students in the subtleties of French Literature. The last subject caught the interest of Cabot, who had spent three years in French schools before entering Middle-sex and spoke French as fluently as English. He majored in Romance...
Recent Godkin Lecturers have included Louis Munoz Marin, Governor of Puerto Rico; Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party; and James Bryant Conant '14, President Emeritus of the University and former Ambassador to Germany, Previously, the series has been presented in the spring. The Harvard Press publishes the lectures annually...
Just as they revolutionized U.S. agriculture-and helped sow the farm surplus -state universities have reaped millions of students. In the 19303, Harvard's President James Bryant Conant predicted: "During the next century of academic history, university education in this Republic will be largely in the hands of the tax-supported institutions. As they fare, so fares the cultural and intellectual life of the American people...
...considerably more than a mere "mention of the hundreds of thousands of American children having to attend classes in basements, etc." see TIME Cover Story on Educator James Bryant Conant, Sept...