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...High-profile figures such as former University President James B. Conant ’14 were publicly vocal in their support for education reform. Conant received a grant from the Carnegie Foundation in 1957 to study American public high schools through “searching examination, city by city and town by town” over two years to see whether gifted children were adequately pushed to strive for higher education...
...President Drew G. Faust often gazes, letting herself occasionally wonder...wonder if they’d...be proud of her...(sniffle). 8. A guillotine, for use in extreme Ad Board cases. 9. The little-known Harvard School of Colonial Management. 10. A letter from former University President James B. Conant ’14 that begins, “My Dear Sir Martian Overload President...” 11. Henry A. Kissinger ’50, just sitting quietly in a rocking chair. 12. Supply of tequila for upcoming “Presidential Thirsty Thursday...
...With biting references to the divine mission originally articulated by Harvard’s Puritan forefathers, their putatively misguided attempt to search for “truth” rather than “truths”—as well as the presumption of James Conant, who presided over Harvard in the mid 1900s, to address his letter to his 21st-century successor as “My dear Sir”—Faust appeared to discard the tradition of the university’s founders as unfit according to current standards...
...Williams could not ride the momentum in the second round, however, falling to Garuge of Trinity, 3-1. After losing in the second round of the Hollaran Cup, Neo won three matches and reached the finals of the consolation draw before falling to Dartmouth’s Hannah Conant, 9-5, 4-9, 9-7, 9-7. —Staff writer Barrett P. Kenny can be reached at bpkenny@fas.harvard.edu...
...came in the form of a letter written in 1951 by then-President James B. Conant ‘14, who sealed it with instructions that it should be opened by the first Harvard president of the 21st century. The letter was lost in the Harvard Archives during the tenure of Lawrence H. Summers—or maybe it was just waiting...