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Tillich was in Cambridge this past weekend to meet theologians from the University and neighboring schools. He discussed the role of theology in the University with such men as Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, John P. Dillenberger, associate professor of Theology, and John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy...
Horn also attacked as undemocratic the position of James B. Conant '14, President emeritus, on the selection of students for higher education. According to Horn, Conant once proposed that only about the top 25 percent in intellectual capacity be admitted to the traditional college...
...time saved. The academic average of men in the big sports is not below that of the College. One man on last year's varsity crew graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and is now at Cambridge working for a degree in History. Last year's captain is one the Conant Scholarship at Hamburg, the captain before is working on geo-physics at Cambridge. During the last four from the crew have gone to Harvard Medical School. Every sport has similar men. How can one call this "hardly contributing intellectually" to the College? Evidently some scholars fell there is a great value...
...friend of his, Richard D. Campbell, Jr.'48, had pushed the idea of an American seminar in Europe. When the widow of the famed German producer, Max Rinehart, offered to donate Leopoldskron to them, they were able to enlist the support of such influential figures as ex-President Conant, and received the sponsorship of the Student Council and the International Student Service. But funds were still difficult to raise. Heller and the other Americans sweated out the first session in the summer of 1947. The war in Europe had ended only two years before, and national hatreds were still intense...
...contracting globe has forced us to become more sophisticated about foreign policy, neither optimistically sentimental, nor pessimistically cynical. This means that education must prepare students to think about the whole world, and it must prepare all of them to do so as well as possible," Conant said...