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...James B. Conant 13, President Emeritus of the University, has called for states to be given primary control over educational policy in his new report on American education published today...
...liberal education. With regard to this question one might also recall that the founders of Harvard aimed ultimately at "the advancement of all literature and artes and Sciences." This "liberal ideal" burgeoned into President Abbot Lawrence Lowell's "a little of everything and something well." President Conant continued to foster this ideal and embodied it in his General Education Program...
President Pusey and ex-President James B. Conant '14 have joined the National Council for Civic Responsibility, an organization formed last month to "expose and correct" the activities of the John Birch Society and "related reactionary groups...
Goodman goes on to treat a number of Harvard people as if they were members of a conspiracy. James Conant, Jerome Bruner, Graham Blaine, Dr. Resnick of the Ed School, and Dean Whitla from the Office of Tests all have a hand in enforcing in loco parentis, and putting on public relations. "The University," Goodman laments, "which should be the dissident and the poor has become the Establishment. The streets are full of its monks . . . What a bad scene. Its spirit pervades all of society...
...Conant, who is in Berlin as European educational adviser to the Ford Foundation, was unable to accept the $1000 award in person, but in a letter he expressed hope that "the award signifies a wide acceptance of my pleas for a new look at teacher education...