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When George Packer Berry steps down as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the end of this academic year, he will have completed sixteen years of a memorable Harvard tenure. James Bryant Conant called his 1949 appointment of Berry "the best job ever did on the administrative side while president of Harvard." And last year, President Pusey said: Rarely, in all Harvard's history has a department of the University contributed so much to advance the causes it serves as has the Harvard Medical School during its years under Dr. Berry...
...school. Dur- ing his stay at the University of Rochester he slowly became involved with the problem of medical education and had to forego much of his research. By 1949, his interest in education had brought him to the attention of many university administrators; so it was that President Conant in that year offered him his present job. Convinced by Conant that "Harvard furnishes an excellent vantage point from which to make a contribution to American education," Berry accepted...
...clubs enjoy pointing to their rosters of distinguished alumni. Theodore Roosevelt was a member of the Porcellian, Teddy and Jack Kennedy were members of the Spee, Bobby was a member of the Owl. Robert Benchley and former Harvard President James Bryant Conant joined the D. U. Franklin Roosevelt was turned down by the Porcellian--one biographer claims that this was one of the most devastating set-backs of his life--but made the Fly. Nearly 80 per cent of the present Harvard Corporation belonged to final clubs when undergraduates...
Besides Ford and Sizer, the committee's members include Dwight Le M. Bolinger, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Edwin E. Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics; Douglas Porter, assistant professor of Education and the University's director of Programmed Instruction; David E. Purpel, assistant professor of Education and acting director of the Master of Arts in Teaching program; and William G. Perry, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...Supreme Court's school prayer decision "in no way relieves the American public school of its responsibility for developing the religious feeling and morality of its students, "Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, Emeritus, said Thursday night...