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Action under the Plan was still suspended. Counsel for the dissenters met with the Overseers Coordinating Committee, now chaired by Laird Bell '04, lawyer in his own right, and later with President Conant and several members of the Corporation. They submitted a proposed vote in line with their views. Toward the end of 1952 the Bell Committee issued a policy statement that favored dropping the Bailey Plan regarding the Arboretum, but also in favor, if the Corporation should consider it in the Arboretum's interest, of moving the herbarium and library to the new fire-proof building in Cambridge. This...
...Conant Frequent Visitor...
German High Commissioner James B. Conant '14, President of the University, emeritus, is a frequent visitor to the Free University, founded in 1948, Hirsch noted. "He hasn't forgotten that he was formerly a professor," he commented...
...might accomplish, he was determined to put new life into the Divinity School. The school had long suffered from neglect. It was operating with only three full-time professors, had not had a major fund-raising campaign between 1879 and 1949. Though a special committee set up by President Conant did urge that Harvard once again become "a strong center of religious learning," few alumni seemed to care whether Divinity survived...
Buck, Dean and Provost for 15 years until his resignation in 1953, has served as virtual president of the University twice: when former president James B. Conant '14 was absent for atom research during the war, and later when Conant resigned to serve as West Germany High Commissioner...