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...present Ambassador to the Republic of West Germany, Conant has entitled his three-lecture series "Three Ways of Thinking," with the sub-title, "Some Observations on Germany and the United States...
Former Harvard President James B. Conant will give the Stafford Little Lectures at Princeton. University in late Feburary, it was learned yesterday. The lectures are given annually by men of international prominence, and are devoted to a discussion of world affairs...
...Conant will speak on three successive afternoons...
...instances where the HDC was troubled by censorship. Theoretically, all the plays which it produced, until a few years ago, had to be approved by the group's faculty advisory committee. Normally this committee would decide which of a number of plays to produce. But in 1934, President Conant requested to read A Bride for the Unicorn and decide whether or not it was too risque to produce. The play squeaked through the committee, 3 to 2, but President Ada of to appear in it. Undaunted, the Dramatic club found willing actresses outside the University, and the production, given...
Then when Mr. Conant arrived, he made House residence for undergraduates mandatory. Perforce, out went graduate students, in came undergraduates, so that the ratio soared to one to 44. Now that more Houses, if not Harkness millions, seem assured, it is time to recognize and reaffirm the original aims of the Houses: grad students should return from exile, bringing with them the stimulation they've hidden away in the icy Siberia of the Grad Center...