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Even President James B. Conant, who had entertained the old General at his house the evening before, was not led to expect a major address from Marshall. But word of Harvard's honorary degree to Marshall and his appearance at the University had leaked to the press 24 hours earlier. The New York Times that morning wrote, "He is expected to deliver a speech which perhaps will include an important pronouncement of foreign affairs...
After conducting the traditional morning ceremonies and awarding the first 11 honoraries, Conant finally reached General Marshall, "an American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of this nation...
...basically, a philosophy of education, whose aim President Conant outlined thus...
...Conant's successor, Nathan M. Pusey, Harvard has acquired a president concerned more with undergraduate education than with the speaking tours of the Conant regime. Pusey came to Harvard from Lawrence College, a small, liberal arts institution in Appleton, Wis., where he had taught undergraduates for over half of his nine-year as president...
General Education, the idea that controls Harvard education, has a longer history, reaching back into the administrations of Lowell and Eliot, but it was given meaning for current generations at Harvard in 1943 when President Conant appointed a University Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society. That Committee produced a book, the book produced a program of education that gave new significance to the ideas of electives, concentration and distribution...