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...every so often for the past hundred years. It's a preoccupation with them, or so it seems. Late in the nineteenth century, Eliot started the elective system. Early in the twentieth century, Lowell instituted a program of undergraduate concentrations. Later on, Lowell began the House system. And then Conant wrote the red book with its insistence on the principle of general education. Now, less than 30 years after the last educational revolution, Bok and Rosovsky have a brand new revolution up their ivy-covered sleeves...
Former President James B. Conant '14, who administered Harvard while Notestein led thousands of women one-quarter of a mile away, cited her "lasting contributions" to American education and to Radcliffe...
Fieser first began working on developing new weapons for the U.S. military in late 1940, more than a year before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. He was 40 at the time and one of a group of young professors--organized in part by President Emeritus James Bryant Conant '14, a chemist like Fieser--asked by the government to work in secret on weaponry. The government, Conant and all the professors involved took for granted that the United State's eventual entry into the war was inevitable...
Pusey adapted well to the Harvard of the fifties, and he must be given credit (or blame) for Harvard's golden age of expansion. James Byrant Conant set up General Education, but Nathan Pusey implemented it, and brought it to every corner of every geographical nook and cranny in the United States...
Ostensibly this new contract marked an advance from the days when Harvard President Emeritus James Bryant Conant '14 could say that Harvard was coed only in practice not in theory--the war and attendant financial problems alone had formed the backdrop to the 1943 agreement...