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While President Conant was less than gung-ho about the idea of a university theatre, his predecessor, A. Lawrence Lowell, had actively opposed one, going so far as to refuse unsolicited offers of money for the purpose of establishing a drama school. Conant's successor, Nathan Pusey, felt differently. Early in '54 he announced his support for a drive to finance construction of a theatre, and when John L. Loeb '24 donated a flat million to the cause, its realization became a certainty...
Edwin E. Moise, James B. Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics, told the audience that there must still be hope for America, if a President feels he has to delude his people with fairy tales. "If LBJ thinks the American conscience is not dead, then I cheer up and think perhaps...
...Presbyterian minister. Last week, on a hilltop overlooking the Mediterranean, the American University of Beirut began its centennial year by inaugurating Samuel Kirkwood, a former Harvard medical professor and public health commissioner of Massachusetts, as its new president. Later, Harvard's President Nathan Pusey and President Emeritus James Conant will join the year-long celebration as A.U.B. moves ahead on what Kirkwood sees as its main mission: "To provide a Western education without alienating the student from his Middle Eastern environment...
...service in Memorial Church in September, 1940, President Conant urged undergraduates to remember that the best way to serve the country at that point was by finishing their education. But the distractions of the War became harder to ignore as '41 began its senior year; the neutrality debate within the Harvard community became bitter, and more and more the outside world intruded upon what academic calm remained. During a mass registration day in October 4700 students and Faculty members registered for the Selective Service...
Undergraduate organizations proliferated on both sides of the neutrality question. The American Student Defense League was formed to "arouse and prepare students for American defense" and to urge an Anglo-American pact. The Harvard Student Union emphatically opposed involvement, as did the Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention. Conant's frequent public speeches helped polarize the issue. On a speaking tour of the South in October he called for immediate and complete American armament; in November he said that no limit should be put on our aid to the Allies; by May, on a national hookup, he urged immediate entry into...