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...English friend Samuel Coleridge wrote: "To you alone of all contemporary Artists does it seem to have been given, to know what Nature is-not the dead shapes, the outward Letter-but the Life of Nature itself." His friends and admirers were transatlantic giants of the day: Wordsworth, Southey, Bryant, Longfellow, Washington Irving, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...which, unlike Andover, still makes Latin compulsory for all hands, chose Frederick R. Weed, 41, as the youngest headmaster in its 300-year history. Weed went to public school, graduated from Harvard, was in banking before he took up teaching. A committee headed by Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, an old Roxbury boy himself, picked Weed...
Stephen M. Schwebel '50 was reelected chairman of the United Nations Council for the coming year, in elections held last night. Other officers named include Donald S. Connery '50 and W. Baird Bryant '50, vice-chairman; Peter Stafford '49, secretary; and Eliot Berkley...
Should science be on the defensive, remorseful for having made the Bomb? Among those who think not is quick-smiling, quick-thinking Dr. James Bryant Conant, Harvard's eminent chemist-president, and a top U.S. wartime scientist. Last week, Dr. Conant held a press conference in Manhattan to launch his just-published book, On Understanding Science...
...Paul's Cathedral. Along Detroit's Woodward Ave., the curious hung out of windows, perched on roofs and climbed the trees to get a better view. At the cathedral's entrance, the limousines disgorged the auto city's great. From a maroon Lincoln limousine, Clara Bryant Ford stepped out, leaning on the arm of her grandson, Henry. Inside St. Paul's, in a sealed casket, lay the pinch-faced, fragile remains of her husband...