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There have been Deans of the Faculty for ages, but before 1940 their main job was to serve as water boy for the President. President Lowell thrived on such a system, for it allowed him to dictate everything, from Concentration to planting saplings around the Houses. President Conant, though, didn't like it, and further, Harvard had grown too sprawling for one man to direct all its details. In six years, he went through three Deans of the Faculty, searching for one to whom he could delegate Faculty problems with full confidence...
General Education, for example, through originally President Conant's idea, owes its form, content, and indeed its very existence to the Provost. He chaired the committee which recommended it, adding much to the plan from his own store of ideas, and skillfully combining the ideas of others, then nursed it through a highly critical Faculty with no crippling changes. The Bender Plan, an attempt to inject the educational intimacy of the past into the expanded College of today, is equally the product of his initiative and persistence...
Usually reliable sources speculated last night that Amory's acceptance of such an important job in government virtually places him out of the running for the University presidency. Because of his background, age, and record, he had been prominently mentioned for the post vacated last January by James Bryant Conant '14, who resigned to become United States High Commissioner for Germany...
...students are: Stephen M. Cohen 2G of Conant Hall and Long Beach, N.Y., to study at Magdalen College, Oxford University; Edward I. Fry 3G of 401 Broadway, Cambridge, and Conroe, Tex., to study at Auckland University College, New Zealand; and Clarence W. Kerr of 15 Mt. Auburn St. and Glendale Calif., to study at Warburg Institute, London University...
...short, X-ray technician and Dillon fixture Joe Murphy cannot be dwarfed by his radiating photographic device. "That whistle box" he says; since 1935, the whistle box has taken hundreds of thousands of pictures and Murphy has made friends with everyone from telephone operators to James Bryant Conant...