Word: conant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Businessmen and the Business School must concentrate on more than earning the all-mighty dollar to fulfill social obligations, Donald K. David Dean of the Business School said in a report to President Conant released to the public today...
...special committee appointed by President Conant to review the first ten years of Nieman Fellowships at Harvard has reported that the Foundation is working well and should be continued, William M. Pinkerton, Director of the University News Office, told the CRIMSON last night...
...President's busy academic life is detailed in Roosevelt's story. When coming to Harvard, Conant allegedly asked his doctor "how a man can be president of Harvard and live." The doctor set up a daily routine giving the president some leisure, but Conant's teaching commitments, writing, banquets, faculty meetings, and constant social functions have made the doctor's advice "far easier said than done...
...result of this schedule, according to Roosevelt, is that "it is still physically impossible for Conant to be anything but remote from large numbers of undergraduates... and faculty. Although he "attends annual dinners at the Houses... occasionally addresses student groups... meets regularly with a few top CRIMSON editors every two or three weeks... the fact remains that only one undergraduate out of a thousand has any contact with Conant...
Other sections of the article describe how Conant "has stepped on the toes of conservative alumni," quoting an Atlantic Monthly article of a few years back, entitled "Wanted: American Radicals," in which the President wrote "to prevent the growth of a caste system, (the American radical) will be resolute in his demands to confiscate... all property once a generation." Roosevelt says that "Conant has subsequently modified this statement considerably...