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...December 8, 1941, James B. Conant, then President of the University, spoke before a large audience in Sanders Theatre. "The United States is now at war . . . . We are here tonight to testify that each one of us stands ready to do his part in insuring that a speedy and complete victory is ours. To this end I pledge all the resources of Harvard University," he said...
Bonn: Scholarly, ex-Harvard President James B. Conant may be followed by the State Department's skilled careerist and longtime Ike friend. Deputy Under Secretary Robert Murphy...
...experienced steady improvement for a hundred years. It was especially advanced by President Lowell's devotion to curricular change and multiform development, above all by his establishment of the House system. No one in all Harvard's history cared more for the College than he. And, after him, President Conant set himself no less steadfastly to strengthen this part of the University. Mr. Conant's new scholarship and fellowship programs advanced the claim of the College to be a truly national institution attracting more and more of the exceptionally able from all parts of the country. General Education enhanced...
...future, President Hill said: "The president has long been impressed with a conviction that the wealth of the University is greatly over-estimated by her friends and by the public." Only yesterday, after the ninety years of tremendous growth which produced the great University we now enjoy, President Conant was saying. "Two legends are now current in certain circles in the United States: One is to the effect that the days of private philanthropy are over; the other is that Harvard, unlike other universities, is so rich it needs no more money." And he added quickly, "Both are demonstrably false...
...second time in three weeks, U.S. Ambassador James Bryant Conant apologized to West German Foreign Minister Dr. Heinrich von Brentano for G.I. misbehavior. Stung by German charges of "helpless excuses," U.S. European Commander General Henry I. Hodes ordered a midnight curfew for West Germany's 150,000 G.I.s, promised to weed out "misfits and lawbreakers" from U.S. units. Some Army commanders are inclined to blame the increase in serious violence on the Army's much-ballyhooed new "Operation Gyroscope," whereby entire units, up to divisions, trade duty stations. Formerly, fresh groups of young draftees went into old units...