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Harvard's James Bryant Conant: "Education as usual should be our slogan. If this seems too tame a slogan for these exciting days, let me remind you . . . that this nation now emerges from chaos as the significant home of the arts, of literature, of scholarship, of science. ... I ... make certain assumptions about the next ten years . . . [that] we are not facing the end of civilization . . . that the devastation of the European war will place a unique burden upon the citizens of this nation to carry forward the culture of our time...
...Reception for all new students in the large Dining Hall of the Harvard Union. President James Bryant Conant will preside. Speakers: Mr. Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress; the Reverand Willard Learoyd Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers; and Dr. Richard M. Gummers, Chairman of the Committee on Admission...
...last week a gawky, sallow-faced man of 39 stood in the U. S. Immigration station on San Francisco's Angel Island and swore to tell the whole truth. Alfred Renton Bryant ("Harry") Bridges proceeded to tell more about himself than anyone had told before. Because he is the most potent and feared Laborite in the western U. S., Bridges on Bridges was bound to furnish 1) news, 2) insight into the innards of Leftist Labor...
...educational prestige among U. S. private universities are Harvard and Chicago. Both have added to their reputation since they got their present presidents, Chicago its Boy Wonder Robert Maynard Hutchins in 1929, Harvard its Chemist James Bryant Conant in 1933. Rawboned President Conant, now 46, has proved a cautious, canny administrator. Arriving when Harvard was becoming stodgy and losing renowned old professors, Conant hired brilliant young teachers, jabbed a hypodermic into stodgy places, but made no basic change in the Harvard system. President Hutchins, now 40, is impatient with all existing systems. Smart, handsome, charming, a crack money raiser, Hutchins...
...years ago Harvard's dismissal of two popular, liberal young instructors, John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy, ruffled the leaves of the academic grove but uprooted no trees. When Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, petitioned by the faculty, appointed a faculty committee (including Felix Frankfurter) to investigate the affair, few expected anything to come of it. For Messrs. Walsh and Sweezy, nothing did; President Conant politely turned down the committee's recommendation that the pair be rehired (TIME, June...