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Though the College is predominantly residential, and proud of it, over 11 per cent of its students now live off-campus as "commuters." Thirty years ago when the stock market crashed, the percentage was up over 40, but then Harkness gave Harvard its Houses, President Conant laid heavy stress on "national distribution," and the non-resident segment began shrinking to its present minimum...
Godkin Lecturers of recent years have included ex-President of the University James Bryant Conant, British Labor Party leader Hugh Gaitskell, and former ambassador to India Chester Bowles...
...simple answer to the problem of preparation lies in standardized secondary schooling--those schools which fail to meet the minimum standards imposed by Ivy League colleges simply are not considered at admissions time. President Emeritus Conant has been a strong advocate of this "pull the high schools up by our bootstraps" theory of admissions, despite the danger of leaving the the small town high school irrevocably behind...
Many of these people remain on the Faculty today, and a sizeable number of men with war experience have been added since 1945. Some of the functions that these men performed include scientific research, administration, teaching, writing history, and spying. And as Harvard's President, James B. Conant '14 exercised his leadership to a far-reaching extent...
...Conant disagreed with those who would "establish priorities as between the educational needs of different types of children." "All the youth of the community can be well served by a school system," he asserted, "but not by providing one uniform curriculum, grades one through twelve...