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Senate confirmation of President Conant as United States High Commissioner in Germany, not expected until Monday, came last night by a voice vote after a special plea for speed from the White House...
Although there had been rumblings of opposition, only two Senators, Case (R.S.D.) and Dworshak (R.-Ida.), voted against confirmation. Case contended that a speech Conant made in 1944 advocating strict control of German industry after World War II raised "grave doubts" as to whether he could be effective in the post...
Frederick B. Deknatel, professor of Fine Arts, took issue with Conant's statement that "many of the younger members of the Harvard staff, particularly those interested in the General Education program," agree with his interpretation of the humanities. Deknatel argued that this statement seems to imply that older members of the staff disagree and are advocates of the antiquarian attitude. "It seems to me," eknatel said, "that the conception of the humanities as an expression of the creative human spirit is the attitude which most of the teachers of humanities are operating on here. It is certainly far more widespread...
Harry Bober assistant professor of Fine Arts, termed Conant's argument "weighted." He explained that it is "unfortunate" to talk about the humanities "in terms of a practice long ago outmoded." The history of Art, he added, does not rely on a collector's instinct or snob appeal. "One would have to look very far for snob appeal in the humanities," he declared. "For the most part the humanities are concerned with the broadest human motivation and the history of ideas...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, admitted that the attitude which Conant discusses is prevalent on the national scene, but said, "Teaching in the humanities at Harvard generally tries to avoid both the collector's point of view and the attitude of unenlightened scholarship...