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Karen E. Wilk '58 won the James Bryant Conant prize in science, it was announced last week. John L. Warner '59 won the second prize, while Michael A. Boyd '58, Harvey A. Harris '58, and Jocob H. Tulchin '59 received honorable mention...
Pusey's immediate predecessors, it is probably fair to say, were less than enthusiastic in their non-pecuniary dealings with the College's alumni. Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and to a certain degree Conant had something of the attitude cited by Sperry in regard to another college president: "I could run this university if I had only the trustees and the faculty and the students and the general public to deal with. It is the alumni that make the job hard." Or, in the words of William F. Buckley, Jr., in God and Man at Yale, these Presidents in dealing with...
...policy. In 1650 Dunster faced attempts to purge the Yard of "antipaedobaptism." Leverett in 1717 was threatened for his "secularism." Eliot in 1885 encountered an organized alumni campaign to block the free elective system. Lowell in 1916 was attacked for the presence on the Faculty of pro-German professors. Conant's mail was constantly enlivened by letters such as that received in 1935 from Alexander Lincoln, Jr. '32, who pointed out that "My Class this year celebrated its fortieth anniversary and an overwhelming majority of its members...are utterly opposed to the New Deal and all its work." Lincoln then...
Meanwhile Conant determined to reorganize dental education at Harvard. Conant formed a committee chaired by Dean Burwell of the Medical School and told it to bring its recommendations to the Medical Faculty. This immediately drew protest from dentists, who didn't want to be "railroaded by their big brother" and who forgot that the Dental and Medical Faculties had been combined under the Dean of the Medical Faculty...
...however, the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockfeller Foundation, and the Markle Foundation gave the money required for putting the plan into operation. It was at this same time that Conant announced that the Dental School would operate under a new name, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine...