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Clearly, Rosovsky is determined to produce another Redbook. But in a departure from Conant's example, he has consciously chosen not to hinge his magnum opus on the work of a prestigious group of wise men. "We avoided that from the very beginning, we don't operate that way," Rosovsky says, even though he specifically mentioned creating a "blue-ribbon" panel in his February 1974 announcement. By creating the task forces, Rosovsky says, he hoped to gather as many ideas as possible ("they are one of the hardest things to get") and to develop a broad base of support...
More than three decades earlier President James B. Conant '14 had set out a similar goal, naming a dozen Harvard and Radcliffe Faculty members and administrators to a panel pretentiously called the "University Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society." The committee's 1945 report greatly influenced the course of college education in the United States, outlining proposals for general education courses and requirements as they exist at Harvard and many other colleges today. The report's basic premise holds that there is a core of knowledge essential to a citizen in a free society...
...period came to an end, Harvard made two changes. Ralph Earle replaced John Conant at goalie and went on to collect 11 saves without allowing a goal. Moreover, Harvard reasserted its superior skating and stickhandling to take control of the game...
Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel Laureate and Conant University Professor, Abram Bergson, Baker Professor of Economics, and Paul A. Samuelson, Nobel Laureate and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are among the economics experts scheduled to speak February 27 and 28 at the third series of John Diebold Lectures...
...bump at the beginning was on the head of starting goalie John Conant after he saved the first shot of the game with his facemask. Conant remained in the game for the rest of the first period, though, he gave up two Brown goals before leaving because of dizziness...