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More than any other nation, the U.S. has made local control the key fact of its school system. The result is what James B. Conant calls a "Noah's Ark" of edu cation - a happy confusion of 35,300 in dependent school systems, in which stand ards vary so widely that an A grade in one school may be worth a D in another...
...Conant (TIME cover, Sept. 14, 1959), has in part "nationalized" education with his prescriptions for ailing high schools...
...last man Eliot appointed to the deanship was LeBarron Briggs, one of the most capable and respected men in the Faculty's history. And had Briggs and Eliot left office at the same time, as did President Conant and Dean Paul Buck 42 years later in 1953, the development of the office of Dean of Faculty might have been different. For Briggs could easily have started a tradition of capable and efficient deans...
...Between Conant and Lowell was a fundamental difference consequences shaped Harvard what it is today. Lowell had be in the College. almost a decade, realized he Close to the end of this first bitter dissension over the hiring professors produced a nature petition requesting the of a fact-finding committee. quelled the revolt, but turned away from the from, indeed, even the University entered the national stage on he was to play the part of an can spokesman for higher In control of the University he obscure but capable 41-year-old professor, Paul Buck...
Charles William Eliot1869-1909 Abbott Lawrence Lowell 1909-1933 James Bryant Conant 1933-1953 Nathan Marsh Pusey 1953- Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dunbar, C. F. 1890-95 Peirce, J. M. 1895-98 Smith, C. L. 1898-02 Briggs, L. B. R. 1902-25 Moore, C. H. 1925-31 Murdock, K. B. 1931-34 Birkoff, G. D. (Acting) 1934-35 Brikhoff, G. D. 1936-39 Ferguson, W. S. 1939-41 Buck, P. H. 1924-53 Bundy, McG. 1953-61 Mason, E. S. (Acting) 1961 and Pusey, N. M. (Acting...