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...setting from his imagination and his own personal experience, a more authentic reality thereby resulting. University was Wilder's goal, as he made clear near the conclusion of his off-the-cuff talk to 15,000 people at Harvard's 1951 graduation (at the end of which President Conant called Wilder's remarks "the most significant I have ever heard from an academic man on a commencement program"). Wilder stated: "All literature is one expression of one human life experience. And when James Joyce plays upon 24 languages as upon a clever [we shouldn't] find it preposterous...
...total of 57 scholars, including Nobel laureates Kenneth J. Arrow, Conant University Professor; Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics; Simon S. Kuznets, retired Baker Professor of Economics; and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, addressed their message to the Organization of American States' (OAS) Human Rights Commission...
Philosophically, however, the interest devoted to and effort expended on undergraduate education vary with the times and with the people who govern Harvard at any one point. Some--Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, or James Bryant Conant '14, for example--made it clear they felt undergraduate education was the administration's primary concern: with others--Nathan M. Pusey '28 and Derek C. Bok--the priorities are not so clear. While Harvard's internal policies change, its reputation in the outside world does not. Ask an East Coast student what Harvard is and he'll tell...
...that time, the Economics faculty agreed to a compromise over the recommendations presented by a curriculum committee, chaired by Kenneth J. Arrow, Conant University Professor, which had proposed the hiring of two radical instructors for this year. The faculty voted, instead, to "place first priority" on the hiring of one radical instructor for the 1975-76 academic year...
...Conant asked Lippmann to serve on the first committee to select participants in the fellowship program, which brings practicing journalists to Cambridge for one-year academic sabbaticals...