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...SEVERAL LIVES: MEMOIRS OF A SOCIAL INVENTOR by James B. Conant. 701 pages. Harper...
...long before he was married, 27-year-old James Bryant Conant confessed to his financée that he had three ambitions. The first was to become the leading organic chemist in the U.S. "After that," he said, "I would like to be president of Harvard; and after that, a Cabinet member, perhaps Secretary of the Interior...
...Conant very nearly did it all. When he left the laboratory in 1933 to become Harvard's 23rd president, his work on the structure of chlorophyll had gained him an international reputation. Before he resigned 20 years later to become U.S. High Commissioner to Germany, he had moonlighted in wartime Washington as one of half a dozen key figures managing the development of the atomic bomb. While he never made the Cabinet, in 1955 he became the first American ambassador to the newly sovereign Bonn government. Before and since, he has sowed sensible, evolutionary ideas in U.S. education...
...Conant approved of President Nixon's speech condemning the use of chemical and biological warfare. "I never liked biological warfare," he commented, "perhaps because I didn't know much about it. But I was always worried that, if rumors were correct, we would have epidemics that couldn't be stopped-which would be worse than an atomic bomb...
...Conant, who was President of Harvard from 1933 to 1953, is known for his writings on education, which include the book. American High Schools Today, His autobiography. My Several Lives, was published last week. Now 76 years old, he hopes in the future to write another book on education and a small book-"of interest only to historians"-on his experiences as United States High Commisioner and then Ambassador to West Germany, from...