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...late 1940s, however, President Conant, Dean Bender and Provost Buck began work to make Harvard a national university with a student body that reflected the breadth of American diversity...
President Conant bemoaned the lack of jobs for students while the University employed thousands of part-time laborers. Conant went from department to department demanding that students be hired for part-time work and started the now-common practice of part-time undergraduate employment...
...administration, too, began to look at the world differently because of the veterans on campus. In 1946, Conant used this annual letter in the register to address the issue of compulsory military service...
...With anxious pride, Harvard awaits the day of your return," President James B. Conant '14 told students leaving for the war in 1943. Three years later, with the war over, Conant wrote that the guiding purpose of the College should be "to use its resources to their utmost in the service of the generation who education has been interrupted...
...President James B. Conant '14 explained the University's relaxed requirements for veteran admissions...