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...engineers who are conducting cutting-edge research that has nothing to do with “feminist complaint.” By the way, her role at Radcliffe is a more significant administrative post than either former University Presidents Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, or James B. Conant ’14 held prior to their appointment...
...James Bryant Conant ’14 would take office. As world politics took on an increasingly global preoccupation, university politics, too, would witness drastic changes. The age of the imperial leader had ended, and Harvard entered the age of collaboration, a tradition in which early indications suggest Faust will flourish...
Although Roxbury Latin School had tried to keep Conant out—his mother said he couldn’t spell—Harvard invited him in. Until 1953, the chemist and self-made man would promote the sciences, standardization, and academic scholarships, and often worked off-campus on the Manhattan Project. Conant’s successor Nathan M. Pusey ’28, had a strong presence at Harvard, and not just for academic reasons. An August 8, 1953 headline from the Boston Globe stated that, according to the “girls,” Pusey...
There was more to Pusey than just charming good looks. According to Gomes, the difference between Conant and Pusey was that of the absent scientist versus the present humanist; Pusey had a “very fresh perspective.” But Pusey’s progressiveness was not enough to shelter him from the tumult...
...half, another aspect of presidential speculation has been between insiders and outsiders. Eliot, when elected, was an outsider. A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, was very much an insider, and for ten years before his election Eliot’s resident iterant in the faculty. James B. Conant ’13 was also an insider and performed the same role in the last decade of the Lowell presidency. Nathan M. Pusey ’28, although the last graduate of Harvard College to hold the presidency, was an outsider, and when his name was announced at his 25th reunion...