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...months later, in late May, Arrow accepted a Harvard promotion to the James Bryant Conant University Professorship, effective July...
Nevertheless, most women said their politics were liberal, although somewhat apolitical. 1948 had been the year Dewey, the Harvard-Radcliffe favorite, lost to Truman. It was a time when Harvard President James Bryant Conant and General Dwight D. Eisenhower were actively denouncing communists, saying they should not be permitted to teach...
Kane, who was 73 years old, was a prominent New York lawyer who served on the Corporation, Harvard's foremost governing body, from 1950 until 1970. He was appointed by President James Bryant Conant...
Adviser to Conant...
Prior to his appointment to the Corporation, Kane advised Conant on educational policy issues. On the Corporation, he was known for his fundraising and his special concern for Harvard's non-Cambridge outposts, like the Byzantine Studies Center at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington and Renaissance research center at Villa I Tatti, near Florence, Italy...