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...March University announces President James B. Conant '14 will take a class...
...President Conant supports Universal Military Training program...
President James B. Conant '14, also a Crimson editor, advised U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 so often that he had to invent the position of provost so someone could run Harvard in his absence. When he called the White House switchboard, he told operators, "This is the president calling for Mr. Roosevelt...
...Historically, Harvard has also dictated the nation's intellectual agenda.... Harvard under [President Charles W.] Eliot, that was curriculum. Harvard under [President James] Conant dictated what America should do with the postwar era. The G.I. bill. What American's high schools should...
What will cause this elite to fade in the next two or three decades is that the rest of the country doesn't seem to accept these people as our "natural aristocracy," to use a phrase of Thomas Jefferson's much loved by Conant. Their generally liberal politics don't set the tone for the country. They are the object of populist resentment more than of admiration; they're the "cultural elite" that politicians like to use as a foil. Oddly enough, the members of the old Wasp elite, though their high positions weren't as hard-earned, didn...