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...Other members: Frank Pace Jr., board chairman of General Dynamics Corp. and onetime (1950-52) Secretary of the Army; Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor; James B. Conant, president-emeritus of Harvard and onetime Ambassador to West Germany; Colgate W. Darden Jr., former president of the University of Virginia, former Governor of Virginia and member of Congress; Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; General Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross and onetime Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Retired Judge (U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) Learned Hand...
During that winter and spring, politics continued to absorb almost everyone's attention. After victory in November, FDR pushed through his famous "court-packing bill" and added six justices to the Supreme Court. President Conant denounced the plan as "contrary to the spirit of a free, democratic country...
...well-remembered professors were members of the Harvard Faculty during the three years Cabot spent as an undergraduate. George Pierce Baker, George Lyman Kittredge, and Bliss Perry taught English Literature; Frederick Merk, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Frederick Jackson Turner interpreted History; Ralph Barton Perry taught philosophy; James Bryant Conant was then an assistant professor of Chemistry, and Irving Babbitt instructed students in the subtleties of French Literature. The last subject caught the interest of Cabot, who had spent three years in French schools before entering Middle-sex and spoke French as fluently as English. He majored in Romance Languages...
...three female members of the group, including the vice-Chairman of the Communist Youth Organization for the entire Soviet Union, will stay at Comstock and Moors Hall during the seven days they spend in the Boston area. The men are expected to be quartered in Conant Hall...
...Conant is especially worried that so many teachers regard junior highs as mere training grounds for senior high school. Arguing that grades 7 and 8 require specialized teachers, he advocates a minimum of 50 teachers per 1,000 students, plus one full-time guidance counselor for every 250 to 300 students. He also believes that for this difficult period, children should find their best teachers, whereas, in fact, they usually get the least experienced, the worst paid and the fewest...