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Both boards offer membership in an organization doing a worthwhile job, where one can daily bask in the results of his efforts. The CRIMSON offers challenge enough to produce people like James Bryant Conant '14 and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, both presidents of the CRIMSON who went on to become presidents of other worthwhile organizations. But one can also relax in the democratic excellence of the many social functions...
...Onetime Harvard President James Conant, 63, resigned as Ambassador to the German Federal Republic, may be replaced, if Senate Republicans approve, by David K. E. Bruce, 58, Baltimore lawyer, Harry Truman's Ambassador to France (1949-52) and onetime (1952-53) Under Secretary of State...
...October of 1956 rumor circulated that Conant planned to remain within the Diplomatic Corps. It was then suggested that he might be presented with the ambassadorship to India. Conant is expected to meet with Carnegie officials during the first week in March to outline his study, which he will probably begin next fall...
When Hamilton Rice founded the Geographical Institute of Exploration at Harvard, Raisz came here. And he stayed for 20 years, teaching cartography and caring for the Institute's collection of maps ("The largest in New England."). In 1950, three years after President Conant decided to discontinue the Geography Department, Raisz withdrew his support from the Institute, and it closed...
This was the inevitable consequence of Conant's decision which, says Raisz, "was a pitiful thing to do--the very best people were here...