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President Conant may tire of Germany and return to Harvard, Dahl of the Boston Herald suggests in today's cartoon prediction. At least, Harvard's next president will have Conant's grin and subordinate facial characteristics. The only difference will be a superfluous mustache and sideburns...
Brown cited President Conant's Annual Report of two years ago. In it, Conant called for a "scheme of fellowships connected with the dramatic arts" and "the construction of a theater building to serve as a focal center...
...faculty is anxious to encourage those many undergraduate organizations that regularly produce plays; their efforts are now greatly hampered by the total lack of acceptable facilities," Conant said...
When President Conant first speaks to the man who is to be his successor at Harvard, he may very well repeat the words he wrote in his last report on the University; "...to inform the potential applicants in far away communities about Harvard College is one of the urgent tasks that lie ahead...
...event, the kind of legislation that would emerge from hearings of this type would certainly do violence to basic principles of academic freedom and to First Amendment rights under the Constitution. As Dr. Conant has said: "The colleges of the United States have nothing to hide, but their independence as corporate, scholarly organizations is of supreme importance. One need hardly argue this point in view of the dramatic examples of what occurred under the Nazi and Fascist regimes as well as what is now going on in totalitarian nations...