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...although academics might categorize him as a social scientist, Summers is in the best position since chemist James B. Conant `14 to understand and push the cause of scientific research at Harvard...
...contrast, friends say Summers has an omnivorous mind--but he may not have Rudenstine's deep human understanding or endless personal library. What he does have: an extensive background in the quantitative aspect of economics. That makes Summers the most scientifically-minded man to occupy Massachusetts Hall since Conant...
...James B. Conant ’14, the 23rd president of Harvard was both a leader in national education reform and an international figure, serving as the High Commissioner to Germany under U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, during the final year of his Harvard tenure. Rudenstine’s predecessor, Derek C. Bok, was also a prominent national figure, frequently writing op-ed pieces in national newspapers and testifying before Congress...
...Conant and Provost Paul Buck were riding on a train together. Conant turned to Buck and asked, “What are we going to do about the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship...
...Summers is coming from the Treasury and University President-soon-that-was Neil L. Rudenstine is going to work for an online art consortium; these facts are only strange outside of the context of the revolving door between Washington and Harvard in the 1940s, when President James B. Conant got Secretary of State George C. Marshall to deliver his plan for Europe as the commencement address, and without knowledge of the spending being placed into online ventures by all kinds of educational foundations...