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Bundy's predecessor, Paul S. Buck, set the precedent for a strong Deanship, not only when he took over as Provost during Conant's extended period of service in Washington, but because he took over as Dean when Conant's relations with the Faculty were distinctly strained--following an explosion over tenure appointments that had not been patched up in the five years between the "revolt of the Faculty" and Buck's appointment...
...arrangement, there is very little the President can do directly to promote policy changes. The General Education program, perhaps the classic Presidential achievement, required a special committee, two years of meetings, a book, three years of negotiations, and finally came out under the aegis of Buck as much as Conant. If this was the result of Conant's occasional absence from town, it was also the fruit of the total responsibility for the Faculty held by the Dean. The President was not sufficiently in contact with the Faculty simply to create the program; he had to resort to a fundamental...
Lester Trimble: Four Fragments from the Caunterbury Tales (Adele Addison, soprano; Robert Conant, harpsichord; Charles Russo, clarinet; Martin Orenstein. flute; Columbia). A remarkably effective evocation of Chaucerian moods in a score that is clear, nimble and rhythmically sensitive to the text. U.S. Composer Trimble, 37. with admirable help from Soprano Addison. musically meditates on the characters of the Knight, the Squire, and that lover of both "bigamye" and "octogamye." the Wife of Bath...
Almost three-quarters of "Invitation to Harvard" concerns athletics; comparatively little of the 20-minute film shows glimpses of the best lectures, the libraries, extra curricular activity, tutorial, or House life. In addition, the ten-year-old movie has a message from "President Conant" and misses scenes of Loeb, Quincy, Leverett, and other additions of the last decade. The sports emphasis is a left-over from the fifties when the University apparently had to overcome a "pink, bookworm" image...
...Catholic for President. "Baptists in the United States," said Executive Director Emanuel Carlson of the church's Joint Committee on Public Affairs, "are overwhelmingly in agreement with the views of the President that aid to sectarian institutions is clearly unconstitutional." Harvard's ex-President James Bryant Conant, an educators' educator, placed himself "in agreement with those who feel that public funds-tax monies -should not be spent on private or church-connected schools...