Word: conant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Class of 1956 wrapped up its first year at the College, they were joined by a fellow newcomer to Harvard. Almost five months after the sudden resignation of James B. Conant ’13 that January, Nathan M. Pusey ’28 was selected as the 24th president of the University. When Pusey arrived in Cambridge, the University had been accumulating what he would later describe as a “backlog” of financial needs for two decades. But by the time the Class of 1956 approached its graduation, Pusey was on his way to building...
...Owen, who is Conant University Professor, it’s been a “lucky year”—the famed scholar of Chinese poetry was awarded a 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award by the Mellon Foundation...
After Winthrop let Galbraith loose, it was just a short time before the University kicked him out entirely. In 1939, President James Bryant Conant ’14 opted not to renew his contract—a decision that, Parker said, appears to have been politically motivated. Galbraith supported the New Deal at a time when Harvard administrators were wary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, even though he was one of Harvard?...
Conservative members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers sought to block Galbraith from receiving tenure. But this time, Conant took Galbraith’s side, and in 1949, the 41-year-old became a full professor. He purchased a house on Francis Avenue near the Divinity School, where he lived for the rest of his life...
...best fit for Harvard, it sends a clear message that we should seek to echo: Our institution will not graduate people unfit to engage actively with the world around them. Why aren’t we sending that message now? We can thank former University President James B. Conant ’13, who justified his decision to scrap the Geography Department in 1948 with the famous line: “Geography is not a University subject.” Other American universities took heed, and within a short period of time, geography departments all over the U.S. found themselves...