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President Conant repeatedly neglected to assist distinguished Jewish scholars fleeing Nazi Germany to seek refuge in American academia. Yet the current administration persists in defending Conant??€™s policies, and rebuffing any suggestion of the University’s culpability...
Harvard officials have responded to Norwood’s claims with a focus on Conant??€™s autobiography, published in 1970, in which he explicitly states his aversion to Nazism and asserts that he later turned down donations from Nazi philanthropists. Norwood, however, points out that Conant??€™s words had the benefit of 30 years’ worth of hindsight and that the events that took place under his tenure demonstrate his underlying anti-Semitism. And he may be right...
...media pressure, Hanfstaengl eventually declined the marshal position, but his visit to Cambridge in June 1934 was marked by protest. Escorted by a security detail of four state troopers, he attended receptions at the homes of prominent alumni, including a tea party at Conant??€™s residence...
Lowell in turn promised his successor, James B. Conant ’14, that he would stay out the way, only to retire to Boston where he remained influential among the Brahmin elite that served on Conant??€™s Corporation...
From the start, administrators have repeatedly likened this review to the curricular overhauls conducted in the 1940s under then-University President James Bryant Conant ’14 and in 1978 under former Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky. But these comparisons are disingenuous at best. Conant??€™s revolutionary review essentially invented the idea of general education, the basis for core curricula nationwide; its 1945 report, the Redbook, sold 40,000 copies in a few years. Rosovsky’s review reinvigorated the faculty—still reeling from the culture shocks of the 1960s?...