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...Conant's Curator...
President Conant made the Nieman program virtually shapeless to encourage independent scholarship. Fellows are required only to take one half-course. Under the direction of Louis Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships from the program's second year until 1964, this shapelessness became purposelessness...
...formation of the Nieman alumni organization (1946), and the first publication of Nieman Reports (1947), the Fellows' quarterly journal on the newspaper business. Lyons's penchant for tradition and alumni solidarity has made the Nieman Fellows more an aristocratic fraternity of journalists than the group of scholars that President Conant had hoped...
...school probing new approaches to the teaching of teachers and the edification of educators. Opened in 1920, the school has long been scattered about the Harvard campus. It lingered in a state so lowly, compared with such Harvard professional schools as law and medicine, that President James B. Conant considered scrapping it in the mid-'30s. He kept it, however, and in 1948 appointed Francis Keppel, then 32 (now Assistant Secretary...
...Advanced Standing, and now Chairman of the Committee on General Education. But he believes strongly that the teaching men of the faculty should control the courses. "That's one of the unique things about Harvard," Wilcox says smiling, "guys like me, the full-time administrators, are a rarity. Under Conant we never would have stayed; when Bundy came in he decided to keep some; but I think Harvard takes a great deal of pride in the fact that we're few in number and that it's the teaching men who run the show...