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Robert Decherd: Thank you, Jim. So that some of our older alumni won't think that we have purposely miffed the third president in the Harvard progression from President Conant to President Bok, President Pusey was unable to attend, but did write that he had read The Crimson on and off over the past 50 years and regretted not being able...
...then, are McCarthy's Communist teachers at Harvard? President Conant, in his last annual report, said he knew of no Communist party member at Harvard. Nor, presumably, has the Corporation, for it has said it would, "in the absence of extraordinary circumstances," fire any Communist it could find. Neither the editors of this newspaper, nor any other students they know, have, in their years at the University, encountered any Faculty member who acted as if he were under Communist domination. Nor have we, as McCarthy has charged, ever been exposed to indoctrination with the Communist party line...
Presidents Bok and Horner will join former President James Byrant Conant 14 in wishing The Crimson a happy birthday...
Something like the Science Center has been in the works since 1939 when President Conant launched a program aimed at improving instruction in the sciences for undergraduates. The program went well with Conant's earlier idea of General Education every undergraduate should be educated in the principals and methods of the sciences as part of an overall knowledge of thought and culture...
...Science Center is a direct outgrowth of Conant's ideas of the thirties. And to many members of the Harvard community these ideas, as well as the Science Center, seem outmoded and no longer valid. The controversy reached so high a pitch that in 1969. Franklin L. Ford, then dean of the Faculty, issued a public statement defending the Science Center, entitled "A Program for Science in Harvard College: Why it Must Succeed." Ford said, "The Science Center stands in the very middle of our planning, both as a badly needed physical facility and as a symbol of the educational...