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...Conant University Professor Stephen Owen said that much of the Faculty discontent has stemmed from the over-centralization of power in Mass. Hall...
Harvard has not seen a president come under such faculty fire as Summers since the late 1930s, when then-University President James B. Conant ’14 faced heavy criticism over his denial of tenure to two economics tutors as well as his broader policy of making the university more meritocratic...
Some professors appeared prepared to vote to censure Conant at a faculty meeting in November 1939. But “he came and gave a kind of half-hearted apology, and that took all the wind out of it,” said Morton Keller, who co-authored the book Making Harvard Modern with his wife, Phyllis...
...Conant went on to serve as president for another 14 years...
Former University President James Bryant Conant ’13, who presided over Harvard in the middle of the last century, faced similarly fierce faculty criticism over tenure policies early in his presidency, but survived to serve for a respected twenty-year term...