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President James B. Conant '14 wrote in hisfirst President's report in 1933 that "it isunnecessary to point out what a stimulatinginfluence to the houses and the graduate schoolsthe presence of these junior fellows will...
After a fierce lobbying campaign by Conant, Chafee reversed his previously published position and wrote a letter to The Crimson opposing the blanket use of the Fifth Amendment...
Hershberg holds Conant to a high standard and argues that the Harvard president fell short...
Harvard has a special responsibility to campaign against nuclear weapons, Forrow says. He cites former Harvard President James B. Conant '13, who acted as science adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and oversaw the construction and deployment of the atomic bomb during World...
...Conant made a distinction between wartime and peacetime," says Forrow. "He said the bomb was made in wartime to end war, but that in peacetime, we could turn back the clock...