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...suggested that this sort of debate would be the greatest benefit to the College to come from the committee's work. He felt that the professors probably would not prepare anything as lengthy as the 270 page book compiled 15 years ago by a General Education committee which President Conant and Paul H. Buck appointed. (Buck and Finley both served on the original group. No other members of the present committee...
...idea of writing about examinations has appealed to many of the University's best-known and most articulate professors. Paul Buck, who was Dean of the Faculty under President Conant, is writing an introduction on the history of exams at Harvard. Franklin Ford, the present Dean, will also be a contributor, along with Stanley Hoffmann, Gerald Holton, George Goethals, Mrs. Bunting, David Reisman, Sanford Lakoff, Sam Beer, Oscar Handlin, John Monro, and others. The finished essays should be before the CEP by Christmas and will be reviewed by the full Faculty sometime during the spring...
...lines. The effect is a steady proliferation of conditions bearing out the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Until recently. Northern school administrators held fast to the neighborhood-school tradition. Last year they got strong support from onetime Harvard President James B. Conant, who argued that upgrading Negro schools where they are (mainly by expanding vocational education) is preferable to "token integration by transporting pupils across attendance lines." Then came the case of New Rochelle, N.Y.-a Northern community startled to find itself forced to desegregate under federal court order. Judge Irving...
...were the best American Presidents? Emeritus Harvard Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., 74, asks the question in the New York Times Magazine and answers it with a poll of 75 men described as "students of American history." Among them: James B. Conant, Denis Brogan, Henry Steele Commager, Felix Frankfurter, and Schlesinger's own historian son, Arthur Jr., who now tinkers around the White House for a President who was not included in the rating. On a scale ranging from Great to Failure, five were called Great. F.D.R. finished third, after Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, but ahead of Woodrow...
Previous Pollak lecturers were Robert Schuman, Sir John Slessor, David A. Morse, James B. Conant, Per Jacobsson, and Lord Bridges...