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Buck will continue as Carl H. pforzheimer University Professor and will devote his time to teaching and completing a history of the University's development under the Eliot, Lowell and Conant administrations...
Provost of the University from 1945 to 1953. Buck was acting President during President Conant's wartime government service and again during the interim between the Conant and Pusey administrations...
...Harvard College was subjected to the "essentially negative" distribution requirement that he take "two or three courses of something--almost anything" outside of his field of concentration. In that year, however, the Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society delivered its report to President Conant. That report--the venerable and moribund Redbook--recommended the substitution of a quite positive prescription: All students would take the same lower-level Humanities course, the same Social Sciences course, and one of two courses in the Natural Sciences. In addition, they would take three more courses outside of their...
...World War II has faded further and further into history, this rhetoric has found less and less acceptance, particularly in the academic community. Former President Conant, who presided over the institution of the program, is now an outspoken advocate of academic specialization, and Gen Ed is defended today more often as an effort to unify the College than as Harvard's contribution to the re-unification of society.6PAUL M. DOTY...
...payoff in any teacher education program," said Conant succinctly, "is in the classrooms of local school districts...