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Former recipients of the award include James B. Conant '14, president emeritus of the University...
...more than a decade, CRIMSON executives have met regularly with Presidents Conant and Pusey in what Harper's in 1958 called "a spirit of potentates conferring with another chief of state...
...Ford Foundation gave $1,330,000 toward meeting a growing public menace that former Harvard President James B. Conant recently called "social dynamite": the high school "drop-outs," who this year numbered 900,000, during the next decade may total 7,500,000. Out of school and out of work, such teen-agers (mainly in slum areas, many Negro migrants from the South) become a drug on the increasing skilled-labor market (compared with the national unemployment rate of 6.8%, the rate for youths 16 and 17 is 18.4%), prone to both crime and violence. Says Conant: "The building...
...president opened the sophomore year of the Class of '36 and Harvard's 298th with the statement that "a University is primarily a group of creative scholars." James Bryant Conant 'I4 added, "Universities are the custodians of the great spiritual values which the human race has so laboriously won. . . ." An Alumni Bulletin survey proclaimed that Harvard men had written 308 books between June and December, and the Harvard Medical School celebrated its 150th anniversary with an address in Sanders Theatre from President-Emeritus Lowell. The Geographical Laboratory was getting daily messages from Rear Admiral Byrd in Little America, and President...
...many quarters. Near the end of the year he again embarrassed Harvard by offering a student's scholarship to be used at a German university. The Hitler lieutenant made a similar offer two years later, only to be repulsed again. By this time Harvard opinion was solidly behind President Conant...