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...Board, the only "logical" solution is even higher standards. To help prestige campuses, he recently suggested, the maximum College Board score of 800 might be raised to 1,200. Applicants might also be limited to those learned enough to enter as sophomores. Harvard's former President James B. Conant has suggested that Harvard-Yale-Princeton be reserved for preprofessional students headed for graduate school...
Fifteen Years ago Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall addressed the first postwar Commencement at Harvard. This is the story of his epochal speech. 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...
Some time before Commencement Day 1947, Bell had renewed the invitation to Marshall to attend the Harvard Commencement and to . Again he declined. Bell, as President of the Alumni Association, was authorized to select speakers from a confidential list of honorary candidate from the Corporation. Bell had President Conant that he was about to name any high brass like admiral or a general; but the President of the University replied that would never do, the public would not stand for it. So Bell selected General Bradley, at that time Administrator of Veterans Affairs, as speaker...
...President Dr. Conant, member the Board of Overseers, ladies gentlemen," Marshall began, "I grateful--touched by the honor corded me by the authorities of Harvard--overwhelmed as a matter fact. These historic and lovely roundings, this perfect day . . . wonderful assembly," said the General,--"a tremendously impressive for a person in my place...
...much impressed . . . as were many of the others I talked to," says Conant. "However, I am frank to say I had no suspicion that the speech would turn out to be so epic making. That it was a major speech there could be no doubt, but since none of us knew that it would be immediately picked up by high ranking officials of foreign countries, we could not anticipate the subsequent developments...