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Federal aid to schools would mean "powerful federal influence" in their curricula, Dr. James B. Conant '14, President, Emeritus, of Harvard, warns in his new book, The Child, the Parent, and the State. He sees little hope, however, for a "radical revision" of the state and federal tax systems, his alternative solution to the "urgent" financial needs confronting American schools...
...James Bryant Conant Laboratory--newest addition to the University's "science city"--received its official dedication yesterday before a group of notables including the President Emeritus, President Pusey, and Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare...
...overflow crowd of 400 in Mallinckrodt Large Lecture Room rose in a standing ovation to Conant when President Pusey named the four-story addition in honor of the former President. "This new building fulfills the needs Mr. Conant foresaw years ago," Pusey stated as he lauded the work of his predecessor...
...Conant himself convulsed the audience with humorous tales of the history of science at the University and the Harvard chemical tradition which "almost antedates chemistry as a science." Speaking as a "voice from the past," he compared the drive to build additional laboratory facilities after the First World War with the current expansion. Pusey also drew an historical analogy with 1928, when Mallinckrodt opened, and praised the "close cooperation" of the government and the University which made the new building possible...
Forty years passed before Harvard again considered the idea of a three-year college. In 1949, President Conant requested a full and thorough examination of the entire undergraduate curriculum, to see if a three-year college program were possible...