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Amid the gathering storm of world events, the man who had guided Harvard through the last world war prepared to depart. As President James Bryant Conant ’14 left, he warned of consequences to come for the University...
...October 1951, Conant joined the presidents of Princeton and Yale in agreeing on new athletic recruiting policies. The schools would no longer admit students who did not meet normal academic standards, and no athletic scholarships would be given...
Gravely concerned by the dilemmas that confronted academia, Conant addressed the red scare in his final report...
Leading the University was eminent chemist and erudite political commentator James Bryant Conant ’14, who in the last year of his presidency sought to pilot Harvard through this period of turbulence...
Seeking to underscore the dangers posed by the Soviet Union, Conant brought the prospect of a nuclear holocaust closer to home...