Word: conant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lectured at the Summer Session of the University of California for six weeks. In the Latin Department he lectured on Ovid and in the Historical on Classical Culture. In company with Professors G. P. Baker '87, G. D. Birkoff '05, A. N. Holcombe, E. G. Boring, J. B. Conant '14, and Mrs. G. P. Baker, formerly acting Dean of Radcliffe College, he returned to Cambridge via Alaska and the Canadian Pacific Railroad. On July 17th Professor Rand and his colleagues mentioned above, who were also lecturing at the University of California, were the guests of honor at a dinner given...
...meeting this morning. Professor Merriman is in charge of History 1, the biggest lecture course in the University. Dr. K. B. Murdock '16, secretary of the Council of the Harvard College library will speak on "How to Use the College Library", and Assistant Professor J. B. Conant '13 of the Department of Chemistry will discuss "Why, and How We Study Science in College...
...residents. That Professor Merriman will be not only instructive but entertaining in his remarks on how to behave in a big lecture course is assured. Mr. Murdock, we know will not fail to be enlightening on the ways of the stacks. Many may feel more interest in Professor Conant's remarks on how to study science than why, since most find that it is not theirs to reason...
...does not expect, of course, to find Professor Palmer shouting "Reinhardt" about the Yard in the evenings; that is because this particular tradition is not especially worth while perpetuating. Nor is Mr. Conant the bell-ringer likely to awake some winter morning to find the clapper of his bell frozen to the sides by President Lowell, for obviously, this also is one of those jovial performances which, genuinely humorous the first time, rapidly becomes mere routine, without any better excuse for itself than an empty and eventually boresome precedent. There is, never theless, a rich and colorful store of Harvard...
...open meeting of the Mathematical Club in the Conant Hall Common Room at 8 o'clock tonight Professor E. C. Kemble, Ph.D. '17, will speak on "The Quantum Theory...