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...rites will be simple and austere, a modern duplication of the inauguration of John Leverett in 1707. The same pattern was followed when James B. Conant 14 was installed in 1933. The reason for the austerity in Conant's inauguration was to avoid any undue expenditures in a time of rigid economy...
...lightning advances under Eliot left many patches of ground to be filled by his successors, Lowell and Conant. The elective system, allowing undergraduates to select any courses they wanted from a rapidly burgeoning catalogue, had made education infinitely more exciting, but it also opened doors to dilletantism. Some students filled their whole programs with relatively easy survey courses from many fields. The "gentleman's C" was the rage. Others, more earnest, took all their courses in the same field...
When James Bryant Conant succeeded Lowell in 1933, he took over a University in the midst of expansion, but at the same time bound by this nation's worst depression...
Financial needs were his first worry, professional appointments his second. Faced with these problems in an era of big business, Conant was forced to initiate the elaborate decentralization scheme that has made every dean completely re- sponsible for the administration of his own graduate school...
...statement to the CRIMSON, the men, including a number of student leaders, said Pusey's approach, as indicated by his recent speech, is "a welcome change after the inattention received during the Conant regime...