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...Harvard Observed” by John T. Bethell ’54.In addition to demonstrations like the one in Sanders, students organized a class-time walkout protest, held rallies on the steps of Memorial Church, and even led a “peace march” concluding at Conant??s doorstep. A 1939 Crimson editorial referred to youth leaders and academic presidents like Conant as people on a hawkish path that is “a super-highway straight to Armageddon,” as quoted in Bethell’s book. And a 1939 poll reported...
...when in 1954 Board members complained to Conant??s successor, Nathan M. Pusey ’28, that the Overseers had been marginalized in important governance decisions and appointments, Pusey responded that he would informally seek their advice in the future. But, as Morton and Phyllis Keller note in “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University,” “little appeared to change...
...although British universities boycotted the “Nazified” University of Heidelberg’s anniversary celebration in 1936, Harvard chose to participate in this Hitler propaganda festival, at which top Nazi leaders delivered virulently anti-Semitic speeches. Albert Einstein would not attend the Harvard Tercentenary because Conant??s guest list included Nazis. Conant??s well-known reluctance to offer prominent refugee Jewish scholars faculty positions was motivated by his own anti-Semitism, expressed in correspondences. Grynbaum ignores these cases of Harvard’s indifference to Jewish suffering and the Nazi threat...
...York was marked by angry encounters with over 1,500 anti-Nazi demonstrators. In Cambridge, anxious state troopers assigned him a security detail for the course of reunion week. Nevertheless, Putzi insisted on attending several receptions at the homes of prominent alumni, including a tea party at Conant??s residence. The president later wrote in his autobiography that his response to Hanfstaengl was “cold; I did not return the greetings...
Tension came to a head at the commencement exercises on June 21, 1934. Two female undergraduates chained themselves to benches in the Yard and interrupted Conant??s commencement speech, chanting “Down With Hanfstaengl!” and “Down With Hitler!” The women were arrested for breach of peace, along with seven other undergraduates who protested in Harvard Square among nearly 2,000 others. Despite pleas for clemency on the part of Conant and the university, seven students were eventually sentenced to six months of hard labor...