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...summer after my father's freshman year, Harvard's president, James B. Connel '12, looked to the future in a speech before the American Chemical Society. "The year 1984," Conant said, "does not glare with menace in my crystal ball...
After that summer with the Bakers, college was a bit of a let-down. A "B" student in my earlier years, I suddenly began to sprout "A's" on my blue books. My only outside job was chauffeuring Harvard's then-new president, James Bryant Conant '14, and his family--which entailed meeting many corporate executives at Back Bay Station en route to meetings of the Overseers. They all chatted amiably with their student chauffeur but the only advice I remember was from Charles Townsend Copeland when I drove him to what must have been one of his very last...
Precinct 7-2 Conant Hall and Rockefeller Hall --Agassiz School, Oxford and Sacremento...
...When Conant, a chemist, was named president, one member of the University community reportedly approached him and said, "Mr. Conant, I'm so disappointed--I thought Harvard chose scholars for its president...
...Conant replied that chemistry was a perfectly respectable branch of scholarship and pointed out that one of his predecessors--Charles W. Eliot--was also a chemist...