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...historian is claiming that Harvard and its president, James B. Conant ’14, built “deliberate ties” with Hitler’s regime, even as reports of anti-Jewish policies in pre-war Nazi Germany made their way across the Atlantic...
Norwood aimed much of his criticism at former President Conant, who is credited today for the shift towards meritocracy in American higher education, and particularly with instituting...
Indeed, over the last decade, as many people have been buried on Harvard Hill—including philosophers John Rawls, Conant University professor emeritus, and Pellegrino University Professor Robert Nozick—as had been buried there over the previous century...
Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz notes that in recent times, the Harvard president’s role has fluctuated between public figure and internal administrator, noting the prominence of former University Presidents James B. Conant ’14 and Derek C. Bok compared with the relative obscurity of Nathan M. Pusey ’28 and Rudenstine. He added that the Corporation was aware of Summers’ “long history of being engaged with political issues” when they chose...
Lowell in turn promised his successor, James B. Conant ’14, that he would stay out the way, only to retire to Boston where he remained influential among the Brahmin elite that served on Conant’s Corporation...