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William Clark of Princeton, N.J., yesterday filed a $150,000 libel suit against James Bryant Conant '14, President emeritus...
Clark, who was chief justice of allied high commission courts in post-war Germany, charged that Conant libeled him in a cabled memorandum to Secretary of State Dulles. Clark's accusation that German courts were Persecuting American civilians involved him in a two-year battle with Conant and the State Department...
...Conant was in Princeton delivering the third of the annual Stratford Little Lectures. A process server reached Conant at the home of Dr. Harold W. Dodds, president of Princeton University...
...more nostalgic form of conversation. Invariably, Masters refer to the few years when virtually every student had an individual tutor, often a full professor or junior faculty member. But the system had grave difficulties and perhaps insoluble inner-conflicts, which exploded full-force in the face of President Conant...
...individual tutorial program for everyone, moreover, was a serious drain on both the budget and the tutors' time. In 1936, tutorial became an optional activity for a department, with tutorial for all sophomores and for only those juniors and seniors of exceptional ability. By 1938, faculty discontent forced President Conant to appoint the "Committee of Eight" to investigate "some problems of personnel in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." For the purpose of the individual tutorial system, the Committee's recommendations for a rigid system of academic advancement meant that there would be fewer tutors, and, in that sense...