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...Conant University Professor John Rawls also runs, but he doesn't like to talk about it. "I jog very slowly. I'm a real amateur. I'm getting along in years, you know. I find I enjoy it now, but I only started because we had a dog who needed to be taken out on walks. Also I wanted to do things with my children, who were growing up, and I found I was getting decrepit too fast...
Ward 7. Precinct 2--Residents of Conant and Rockefeller Hall also vote at Agassiz School...
...when Harvard President James B Conant '14 wrote J. Robert Oppenheimer and several other scientists about what he was as the problems of the Divinity School, Conant posed three questions. The first was whether the Harvard Divinity School should exist at all. Conant's commission later raised several million dollars to follow its own recommendation that the Div School must be "completely reorganized and rehabilitated and not merely patched...
Suddenly the Div School began looking like the "new and revitalized school at the University that would have a nationwide influence" that Walter H. Trumbull, the vice-chairman of Conant's Div School Endowment Fund, envisioned. But the school's most visible nationwide influence this year was on political activism, not theology...
...pleasant a place as he would ever know. Companionship was there always and mild ways of wasting a little money and a great deal of time. From the Club, gentlemen went to classes, always wearing coat, tie, and hat. "Other types did come here, even then, President Conant created Dudley House for what Theodore H. white '38 called "menthalls"; scholarship and day students, many from Boston Latin High School, looking for a way up and out. And some students didn't fit any of the stereotypes-soul-tortured. Thomas Wolfe, trying to read every book in Widener, comes to mind...