Word: conant
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...soon as the four Fellows, the treasurer of the Corporation and President James Conant '14 had voted, Conant himself dictated a letter outlining the reasons that there was to be no "Dr. Hanfstaengl scholarship". "We are unwilling to accept a gift," wrote Conant, "from one who has been so closely associated with the leadership of a political party which has inflicted damage on the Universities of Germany through measures which have struck at principles we believe to be fundamental to universities throughout the world...
...Hanfy" sent Conant another letter later that spring. "While I'm still not sure that I will be able to attend the reunion, I would like to offer a gift," said Hanfstaengl. The letter outlined the proposed scholarship, which was to "enable an outstanding Harvard student, preferably the son of my old classmates, to study in Germany in any field of art or science." The traveling scholarship was good for a year, six months to be spent in "Germany's cultural center" and Hanfy's native city, Munich...
...Harvard, and also the past, a way of preparing the school to deal with the future, and also redeeming it to fulfill the goals of its hoary liberal-arts tradition. It was a monument to Henry Rosovsky, the man of the future, and a memorial to James B. Conant '14, the man of the past. Conant's death in mid-February hammered home the point; the death of the architect of General Education, the first Harvard president to become a major force in educational theory, could only be met by raising a headstone like the Core. Looking back, looking forward...
Names like Roosevelt, Kennedy, Saltonstall, Cabot, Lodge, Lowell and Conant are laced across Harvard's final club history with inbreeding and nepotism. There is even a story of J.P. Morgan, who at Harvard was already every bit the stormy and ruthless baron who glares from the pages of history books. Refused membership in the Fly Club, an insulted Morgan decided to build his own final club, the Delphic. For years it was called "the Gas" because its steward kept the gas lights burning all night, making the club appear as a social beehive to passing outsiders. Unquestionably, by tradition...
American Jewry and Israell Policy, Kenneth Arrow, Conant University Professor, Phillips Brooks House parlor...