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...Harvard was to get quite an education from President Conant. To broaden his student body (it was 60% Eastern), he set up a series of national scholarships to bring in able students from all over the U.S. To broaden the scope of his faculty, he created a series of university professorships "in the hope that distinguished scholars with a 'roving commission' would help to break down departmental barriers." Over protests from some professors, he plumped for a program of general education, and with the publication of the famed Harvard Report (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945), he placed an official...
...Highest Aim. But as an educator, President Conant never stuck to any particular bailiwick. He wandered into every field-from the teaching of science and the education of dentists to the training of teachers. Sometimes he wandered into fields that seemed far from Harvard Yard...
...Harvardman Conant, himself a graduate of the 308-year-old independent Roxbury Latin School, the "first-rate comprehensive high school" is the ideal for America. "More than one foreign observer has remarked that . . . free schools, where the future doctor, lawyer, professor, politician . . . labor leader and manual worker have studied and played together . . . are an American invention. That such schools should be maintained and made even more democratic and comprehensive seems to me to be essential for the future of this republic...
...logical man for serious consideration is, of course, Provost Buck, who has a complete knowledge of the requirements for the Presidential job and has shown himself capable of meeting these requirements while serving as Provost and close associate of Conant for the past five years. Buck, however, may have struck his own name out of consideration by resigning his position and revealing plans for a year's sabbatical...
Recent rumors that Conant has suggested Adlai E. Stevenson as his successor are not true. Conant has taken no part in attempting to pick a man to take his place. Whether Stevenson is on the Corporation's 12-man list has not been determined...