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Echoing the words of Harvard President James Bryant Conant '13 in 1936, President Derek C. Bok yesterday adjourned an anniversary celebration with a pledge that the gathering will reconvene...
...under the management of Harvard's newly-inaugurated president, James Bryant Conant '13, the three graduate schools merged into the present-day GSD. Although the move was intended to unite the three schools, it was most notable not as a bureaucratic change, but for drawing two of the world's best known designers into Harvard's architectural womb...
...Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, then President James Bryant Conant '13, President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Tercentenary historian Samuel Eliot Morison addresesed the gathered crowd. Each encouraged the listeners in Tercentenary Theater to rejoice in the vigour and perseverence that had brought Harvard to its 300th birthday and to apply that same optimistic determination to the solution of contemporary ills in society...
...Harvard was split into two opposing camps, the ideological make-up of which mirrored those of the national political scene. Pushing for change and reform within the University was Conant. A local boy from Dorchester who made good at Harvard as a chemistry student, and then stayed on to become the Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry, Conant's election to the presidency by the Board of Overseers two years earlier had come as a suprise to most people, including the man himself. Initially unhappy at the prospect of having to abandon a promising scientific career, Conant settled down to work...
First on the docket for Conant was a total reconstruction of the faculty. In addition to merely improving the existing faculty, Conant sought to develop new subgroups of teachers who would enhance Harvard's intellectual reputation. The Nieman Fellowships, which permit twelve journalists to work on topics of their choosing at Harvard for a year on a full full stipend, were created during this era. Conant also worked to open the gates of Harvard Yard to poor, but talented scholars with his National Scholarship program--a New Deal of sorts for less privileged classes...