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Although Russia may temporarily surpass the United States in technological development, the American system of education will ultimately prove superior, President Emeritus James B. Conant '14 predicted yesterday in the Spaulding Lecture in Education, delivered at Yale...
...while, Russia will advances technologically, but technology is no measure of general learning, however closely we identify the Natural Sciences with practical arts. Technology is ultimately dependent upon intellectual growth," Conant declared...
...became clear that such a collection demanded a separate building, and in 1940 President Conant dug the first spadeful of earth from a hole that was to become the new rare-book library. When it was opened three months after the start of World War II, Houghton was described as "Fire-proof, earthquake-proof, and reasonably protected against the incendiary bomb." The age of nuclear weapons may have increased Houghton's vulnerability, but it has not diminished the value of a collection that has withstood three hundred years in the Yard...
...support of his assumptions, Conant said that he did not see any immediate threat to peace in Europe nor a return of Nazism to Germany in the future...
...Washington, Conant will submit his new budget, which is reported to be slightly smaller than last year's. The reductions of expenditures in Germany would tend to support Conant's assumption that he will direct an embassy next year...