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Several hundred Harvard Faculty members, alumni and friends filled Memorial Church yesterday in a tribute to former Harvard President James Bryant Conant '14, who died January...
President Bok was one of several speakers who praised Conant's contributions to Harvard and the nation as an educator, scientist and diplomat. Conant served as Harvard president from...
George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, said Conant was "A cool Yankee who could be a warm friend." He added that Conant "made an indelible mark on this century's America. For that, we are all enriched...
...issue is Harvard's revered tradition of welcoming graduating seniors into "the company of educated men and women." The late Harvard president, James Bryant Conant, in a 1945 report entitled "General Education in a Free Society," maintained that an educated graduate must complete courses in three broad categories-the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities. But with the loosening of requirements, the growth of specialized courses and the permissiveness of the 1960s, the general education idea all but disappeared. Easy courses that could be used to satisfy the requirements, such as "History 1380: European Oceanic Discovery, Trade...
Michael R. Rhum, a resident of Conant Hall, a graduate student dormitory on Oxford Street, said yesterday it would have been impractical to have two Conant Halls, because the present Conant Hall already receives misdirected mail from Conant laboratories...