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...moved to the Houses sophomore year and selected our fields of concentration. I was lucky enough to stumble on History and Literature. It was there that I found the 17th century, that yeasty and tumultuous period with more than a superficial resemblance to our own times. Times B. Conant '14 succeeded A. Lawrence Lowell as Harvard's President in our junior year, but I regret to say most of us didn't notice the difference. Our lives and digestions were probably more affected by the repeal of Prohibition at approximately the same time...

Author: By Francis H. Burr, | Title: Depression, Prohibition, and a Different World | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

Acting on a tip from a Conant Hall resident. Harvard Police early last Sunday morning arrested two 19-year-old Cambridge men who were cutting cocaine on a mirror in the lobby of a Law School dorm located on the corner of Oxford and Everett Streets...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Two Local Men Arrested For Cocaine Possession | 3/9/1985 | See Source »

...think that Derek has to be realistic in all that he does," says Weinreb. "He's not an ideologue or a banner waver. In a University of ideologues, I guess he does look like a pragmatist."Three presidents: BOK, NATHAN M. PUSEY '28, and JAMES B. CONANT...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Beyond the Mass Hall Mystique | 1/10/1985 | See Source »

These tours operate out of the Holoyoke Center Information Center, whose manager, Barbra Drake, says they originated with an idea of former President James B. Conant '12. Conant "felt that because of the image of the University throughout the United States as an austere place, the President wanted to make some place where people could feel welcome," she explains...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Walking and Gawking | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

Drake says the tours have changed little since Conant's tenure (1936-52) except for the occasional addition of new landmarks. "There is great interest in that fountain," she says of the recently-installed rock fountain outside the Science Center...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Walking and Gawking | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

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