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...1920s at the urging of then Harvard President James Bryant Conant, Harvard began using the test in order to identify America’s brightest students who did not necessarily have the benefit of being a legacy or attending a prep school. It was developed by Princeton psychologist Carl Brigham, who based many of the questions on an intelligence test had developed for the U.S. army. The test’s now infamous acronym stood for Student Aptitude Test, and was intended to measure exactly that. Since the SAT’s inception, however, the College Board...
...history department who teaches History 71a, “America: Colonial Times to the Civil War” notes that the jumbling of eras in Salem creates a skewed version of history: “In front of the witch museum, they have that marvelous statue of Roger Conant. It’s sort of oversized, and he’s got this great billowing cloak...I think a lot of people look at him and think ‘Salem witch trial judge right there.’ In fact, Conant was dead before the witch trials...
Under James B. Conant ’14, Harvard’s 23rd president, presidential aides “were all Harvard graduates, people who had devoted their careers to Harvard,” Keller says...
...historical sense, Caperton's ambitious agenda for the big test is appropriate: 77 years ago, the exam began life as a tool of social change. The most significant early champion of the SAT was Harvard president James Conant, who, Lemann writes, disliked achievement tests because "they favored rich boys whose parents could buy them top-flight high-school instruction." Conant helped the SAT grow into the behemoth it is today precisely because it was different...
...pave the way for an underground parking lot, the house—built by the first dean of the Divinity School and acquired by Harvard in 1916—was hauled from its original location and stuck behind Conant Hall on Oxford Street...