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...After Conant's tenure, Pusey extended the Lowell principles through attention to the individual and the importance of academic freedom as the essential component of a first-rate university. Pusey hoped the College would produce students...
Under President James B. Conant, Lowell's successor, efforts were made to extend the principle of selection by merit. The College sought talent nationwide through its admissions program, admitting on merit, regardless of financial need. My mentor, John Usher Munro, Dean of Harvard College (who resigned in the late 1960s to teach in a Black college in Alabama), told me about the early days of national recruiting. He and others would take the trains in Chicago and elsewhere, visiting schools and homes to identify talented students and to persuade parents, most of whom had never attended college, to let their...
Bentinck-Smith served under presidents James Bryant Conant '04, Nathan M. Pusey '28 and Derek C. Bok. He earned the Harvard Medal in 1987 for exceptional contributions to the University...
...roots back in the days when[then-President James Bryant] Conant wasencouraging the study of science by the case-studymethod," Gingerich said. "It's a lone survivor,"he said...
During World War II, President James Bryant Conant '14 spent so much time in Washington that he was forced to promote his dean of the Faculty to provost and put his in charge of the day-to day operations of the University...