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Hall points to the presidencies of former government professor A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, former organic chemistry professor James B. Conant ’13, and former Law School Dean Derek C. Bok as particularly “successful presidencies,” contrasting them to the Nathan M. Pusey and Neil L. Rudenstine administrations...
...elitist Harvard would become, more than ever before, concerned with life outside its historically impenetrable shell.THE ORIGINAL STUDENT PEACE MOVEMENT During the late 1930s, debate over the United States’ potential role in the brewing European conflict became an issue of central concern at Harvard. President James B. Conant ’13 championed Harvard’s role in protecting democracy at home and abroad, but student opinion on the matter was conflicted, according to the book “Harvard Observed” by John T. Bethell ’54.In addition to demonstrations like...
...Make a lifelike James B. Conant ’13 mask. The reanimated corpse of the President of Harvard University is allowed to drink wherever the hell he wants...
...Language Louis Menand.LEARNING FROM THE “MOTHER DOCUMENT”Another historical document that bears some resemblance to the Gen Ed proposal is the infamous 1945 report, “General Education in a Free Society,” written by former University President James B. Conant ’14, otherwise known as the Red Book.The Red Book, which addressed what college should be like in the post-WWII world, advocated a so-called “great books” curriculum that would equip students with the tools they needed to engage fully in a meritocratic...
...Yale, he was a famed lawyer, the governor general of the Philippines, secretary of war and secretary of state, and was, by any standard, among the cream of political life in the United States. Yet four years before his death in 1950, he wrote a letter to James B. Conant ’14 that suggested something less than satisfaction...