Word: conant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Conant in architecture, Deknatel in Modern art, Opdyke in European art, Rosenberg in Baroque and graphic art, and Warner in Oriental art all have wide reputations. Carpenter, who handles theory and practice, is highly praised by his students...
...article also describes Conant's background, and his career at Harvard. "Before entering College he had graduated brilliantly from Roxbury Latin, and had already done the equivalent of freshman and sophomore work in chemistry and physics. At Harvard he completed the four-year course in three years with high honors, making Phi Beta Kappa, holding an Honorary John Harvard Scholarship, and working as an editor of the CRIMSON...
...Conant took a quick shot at the Chemical business. He returned to the University for his Ph.D. and "he has remained there ever since." The choice of Conant for President by the Corporation in 1933 is also described. "The story is that Conant...spoke so eloquently of a friend's qualifications that the committee was given seriously to think of...him. It was the old New England story again, of the courtship of Myles Standish...the Corporation indicated that it would be interested in hearing further from Conant in his own behalf...
...went to Conant; Roosevelt describes him as "a physically unobtrusives sort of man...painters have seized his two most distinctive features--a wide mobile month and long-fingered, sensitive hands--and distorted them for emphasis. Only a few photographers have been able to get representative and impressive pictures...
Among the other wartime experiences of Conant brought out in the article is his December 1945 trip to Moscow with Secretary of State Byrnes, to discuss atomic energy control with the Russians. He was entertained at a Christmas Eve dinner, "a supergala performance," in which Molotov served as toastmaster. After wading through a large number of toasts in "oceans of vodka, champagne, wine, and brandy," Molotov allegedly stood up and said "here is this man Conant, who probably has an atomic bomb in his pocket with which he could blow us all to tiny pieces..." He never finished. Stalin jumped...