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Something like the Science Center has been in the works since 1939, when President Conant launched a program aimed at improving instruction in the sciences for undergraduates. The program went well with Conant's earlier idea of General Education: every undergraduate should be educated in the principals and methods of the sciences as part of an overall knowledge of thought and culture...
...Science Center is a direct outgrowth of Conant's ideas of the 30s. And to many members of the Harvard community these ideas, as well as the Science Center, seem outmoded and no longer valid. The controversy reached so high a pitch that in 1969, Franklin L. Ford, then Dean of the Faculty, issued a public statement defending the Science Center, entitled "A Program for Science in Harvard College: Why it Must Succeed." Ford said, "The Science Center stands in the very middle of our planning, both as a badly needed physical facility and as a symbol of the educational...
Pusey came to Harvard in 1954, succeeding James B. Conant '14, and during his 17-year tenure. Harvard's growth statistics were perhaps the most impressive of any university in the United States. The University's annual budget increased from $39 million to $188 million, the number of endowed chairs increased twofold to 277, and the Federal share of the budget grew from one tenth to one third...
Only 100 invited guests will attend the inaugural ceremony, which will be simple in the fashion of President Pusey's and President Conant's installations as President. Pusey will return to Harvard for the first time since his retirement in July to be present at the ceremony...
...background contrasts sharply with Bennett's. In 1943 Bennett started with State Street; he became a partner three years later. He began his Harvard financial career as deputy treasurer under President Conant in 1949 and became treasurer under President Pusey in 1965. As an investment manager, a director on the Boards of many corporations, a man deeply enmeshed in the world of big business, Bennett naturally has a businessman's orientation...