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Unhappy with the exclusive nature of the College’s student body, University President James Bryant Conant appointed Chauncey to find a way to fairly assess the abilities of scholarship applicants. Chauncey suggested the Scholastic Aptitude Test, which had been developed five years earlier by a Princeton professor...
Harvard, and the academy, lost one of its most thoughtful, reasoned and eloquent members last week when Conant Professor Emeritus John Rawls passed away in his Lexington home...
John Rawls, who served as the Conant professor emeritus and was one of the most notable political and moral philosophers of the 20th century, died at his home in Lexington on Sunday...
...history of previous curricular reforms establishes a strong precedent of true innovation. In the late nineteenth century, for instance, President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, broke new ground instituting the elective system. As World War II came to an end, President James B. Conant ’14 oversaw the production of Education in a Free Society, the famous “Red Book” which formed the intellectual underpinnings of the modern American liberal arts curriculum. In the most recent curricular review, Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky renewed the focus on undergraduate education by exposing...
...officer spoke to three suspicious individuals at Conant Hall and learned that one had an active warrant. The officer arrested 23-year-old Kevin O’Brien of Braintree, Mass. for assault and battery, destruction of property over $200, and intimidating a witness...