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...Conant's regime saw the educational pendulum swing all the way back to a curriculum more fixed than any since the middle of Eliot's administration. The restricting factor was General Education, Conant's greatest experiment and probably his greatest single success...
Like his predecessors, Conant was quick to embrace the principles of academic freedom. The events of the last two years have shown this. Conant has refused to budge under storms of national protest, both as Harvard President and U. S. Ambassador to Germany...
...following Conant, Nathan Marsh Pusey has inherited the most influential and at the same time most fired-on post in American education. For guidance, he may well look, at times, to the past--to the traditions of Leverett, of Quincy, of Eliot, Lowell, and Conant...
...plan of the inauguration will follow closely the short and simple ceremony used by John Leverett in 1707, and copied by President-emeritus James Byrant Conant...
President Conant's inauguration lasted less than an hour in 1933. Today's affair is expected to require about an hour and a half...