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...classics scholar, Pusey brought to the job a distinctly different style from his predecessor, James B. Conant ’14, a scientist who had worked on the Manhattan Project with the goal of strengthening national security...
...Conant really didn’t think that somebody who took the Fifth Amendment deserved to be kept on, and said so,” Morton Keller, co-author of “Making Harvard Modern,” told The Crimson in 2004. “Pusey, who had clashed with McCarthy in Wisconsin...was stronger on academic freedom than Conant...
...that this institution of higher learning provided a friendly reception to a top representative of a regime that had already staged massive public book burnings. Nor does he indicate that Harvard police ripped down anti-Nazi fliers activists posted in the Yard, or that then-University President James B. Conant ’14 ridiculed those arrested for protesting against Hitler in Harvard Square. Shortly afterward, Conant officially welcomed a delegation of Italian fascist students to Harvard. The Crimson proposed that Harvard award Hanfstaengl an honorary degree...
Bird and Sherwin are concerned chiefly with the political and personal dimensions of Oppenheimer's case. For a broader picture of Los Alamos as a unique human settlement, part Western boom town, part scientific prison camp, turn to 109 East Palace by Jennet Conant. The Los Alamos in her book is largely the one General Leslie Groves, military chief of the Manhattan Project, was describing when he directed Oppenheimer, saying: "Here at great expense the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. Take good care of them." Conant sees the place partly through the eyes of Dorothy...
...Faculty outcry against Knowles, Skocpol, and Verba’s plan leaves the Faculty, at least for now, without three of its most respected leaders. The responsibility for fixing this leadership vacuum falls squarely on Kirby. As Conant University Professor Stephen Owen pointed out at the meeting, “it is the Dean who leads his or her Faculty.” None of Harvard’s other eight Faculties is having such drastic problems, which points to a lack of leadership on Kirby’s part. Kirby needs to step up and be a more effective...