Word: conant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citing President Conant's last annual report, Aiken said last night, "The whole notion of a free university is that of a self-regulating corporate body." He maintained that the action of president Allen in the dismissal of English professor Joseph Butterworth and Herbert Phillips of the Philosophy Department, over the findings of fellow faculty members, violated that concept, and made it impossible for him to teach there...
Opinion at Harvard has been split on federal scholarship aid. President Conant in his book, "Education in a Divided World," recommended giving higher education to men of merit with limited funds, while Seymour E. Harris, professor of Economics, has stated several times that the supply of college men will soon exceed the demand...
Plans for a new Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research to aid graduate and professional schools were announced by President Conant yesterday...
President Conant emphasized that expansion of the University's research program is particularly urgent at present...
...important function of such a graduate commons project will be that of widening the intellectual life of the graduate student at Harvard," President Conant said. "Lawyers, architects, students of divinity, future secondary school teachers, scientists, historians, and public servants should all be mixed up together...