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Pusey suceeded University President James B. Conant ’14 in 1953 and served until his retirement...
Pusey’s administration spanned both the prosperous 1950s and the turbulent 1960s. He suceeded University president James B. Conant ’14 in 1953 and served until his retirement...
...Lowell’s successor, James B. Conant ’14, pomp and circumstance was not a priority, with war on the horizon and an upcoming Tercentenary Celebration. Instead, Conant selected the Faculty Room of University Hall for his installation. Only 150 people attended. In retrospect, Conant’s secretary, Jerome Greene, maintained that the famed 1935 Tercentenary Celebration, with its audience of 15,000, was Conant’s true inauguration...
...Harvard presidents moving into the second half of the 20th century, the turmoil of the times precluded announcements of sweeping reforms. Though later he would prove to be a great mover and shaker in the world of education, Conant claimed he had no great plans for changes at the University. Bok, speaking in the midst of the Vietnam War, told the small audience assembled in University Hall that he hoped to “renew a vision of our future that will rally faculty, students, staff and alumni to the effort that our special resources permit, and the circumstances...
...first Harvard president to be tested by a crisis larger than higher education. University President James B. Conant ’14 spent much of his time in Washington during World War II, and Derek C. Bok governed a troubled campus during the conflict in Vietnam...