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...Warren E.C. Wacker, director of the University Health Services, says UHS treats about eight anorexics a year, two of whom have to be hospitalized in Stillman Infirmary. Since most anorexics deny there is anything wrong with them and are generally brought to the doctor by their parents, Dr. Lauring Conant, an internist at UHS, says, there are probably more anorexic students at Harvard than UHS treats...
When Pusey gained office, he undertook the first massive fundraising effort which would radically change the structure of the University. Pusey inherited the sad financial legacy of the Conant years, during which the one major fund drive, the Tercentenary, attempted in 1936 in the middle of the Depression, was a tremendous failure. As a result of the generally poor state of fundraising, Conant attempted cut back faculty positions. The furor these cuts stirred near toppled the Conant administration...
Pusey began an extensive study of the University's needs and coaxed Faculty dean McGeorge Bundy and the Harvard Corporation into backing a huge $82.5 million general fund drive--The Program for Harvard College--to be kicked-off once a $6 million drive for the Divinity School started by Conant was completed...
These classroom antics, all part of two seminars involving the performing arts, are par for the courses at the New School, where the curriculum more closely reflects the thinking of Phineas T. Barnum than that of James B. Conant. Humorist Lily Tomlin recently stood on her head to refresh herself while teaching a class on satire. John Lennon will be the guest lecturer this week in a course called Making It in Rock. The New School Bulletin, a catalogue that might be better titled The Best of Club Med and Esalen East, routinely offers courses like Psycho-karate, Body Language...
Four of the 13 prizes--the William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold Prize, the Jeremy Belknap Prize, the Roger Conant Hatch Prizes and the Francis Sales Prize--became available to Radcliffe undergraduates late in the application process this term...