Word: conant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opponents of the proposal distributed position papers documenting Conant's lack of commitment to co-education and his role in developing the atomic bomb. Atterbury said this may have adversely influenced students...
...House referendum on Sunday and Monday, North House residents defeated a proposal to re-name their House after the late President Conant, members of the North House Committee said yesterday...
Nikki Kowalski '78, chairman of the North House Committee said yesterday many students voted against the change because Conant was not directly affiliated with Radcliffe...
DIED. James Bryant Conant, 84, scientist, diplomat, educational reformer and president of Harvard University for 20 years; of heart disease; in Hanover, N.H. A chemist during World War I and a professor of chemistry at Harvard for 14 years thereafter, Conant was partly responsible for the World War II decision to make an atomic bomb and to use it at Hiroshima in 1945. As president of Harvard (1933-53), the self-effacing but stubborn Conant instituted a number of improvements that changed the character of higher education: he broadened the makeup of the student body, argued for a core curriculum...
...desk sat a cartoon with the inscription: "Behold the turtle, He makes progress only when his neck is stuck out." Conant was able to follow that advice in a way that should prove inspirational to today's educators, who without exception continue to lie in his imposing shadow...