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...Harvard President James B. Conant '14 says he has no plans to run in the 1948 U.S. Presidential race, despite prompting by colleagues. "Somebody is always running me for something," Conant tells The Crimson. "At one time I was No. 7 in the list of America's best dressed men. It must have been a mistake...
...President Conant is one of nine prominent scientists and engineers appointed by President Harry S. Truman to the general advisory committee for the Central Commission on Atomic Energy...
...Massachusetts Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes proposes legislation to bar Communists from teaching in public schools. In February, President Conant blasts the bill in testimony at the White House. But despite the opposition, the legislature passes a watered-down version of the bill...
...weeks preceding the grand opening, anticipation ran so high that night security guard Leo Shean reported staving off numerous curious undergraduates, some of whom went so far as to forge letters from President Conant authorizing them to see the site...
...speech at the library's opening ceremony, President James B. Conant '14 extolled Lamont's virtues: "The conventional red tape of library bureaucracy has disappeared. The undergraduate in quest of knowledge or inspiration, whether he is self-propelled or motivated by dread of approaching examinations or papers to be written, can go directly to the shelves...