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During a distinguished career, he served as secretary to President Eliot from 1901 to 1905, Secretary to the Corporation under President Eliot and Lowell from 1905 to 1910 and under President Conant from 1934 to 1943. He was elected three times to the Board of Overseers. Greene, who founded the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and the University Gazette, was also prominent in national public service, and took part in the founding of several important social and philanthropic institutions...
James Bryant Conant '14, President-Emeritus, will be the keynote speaker at an Advanced Administrative Institute to be held in Cambridge from July 7 to 17. The Institute will be sponsored by the Graduate School of Education...
...Conant will base his report on his recently-published study of American high schools. Other speakers representing the University will be Francis G. Keppel '38, Dean of the School of Education, and Herold C. Hunt, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education...
Since the Russians sallied past the stratosphere, and the American education lobbies learned that they could equate their own legitimate interests with the national defense, Americans have eyed the plight of the secondary schools. James Bryant Conant has completed his study. Parents berate their school boards for inadequately preparing their children for college...
Another problem mentioned by Conant was the question of how to provide an education for those students who cannot attend classes on a full-time basis. He pointed out that part-time enrollment of students was employed for a number of years prior to World War II, but finally gave way to separate vocational schools...