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Immediately behind the Sheriffs will be Pusey and University Marshal William G. Anderson. Behind them will be President Emeritus Conant and President-designate Bok. They will be followed by members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers and by the recipients of honorary degrees...
...Rockefeller Fellowship then lured Kistiakowsky to Princeton, where he said he spent five years in which he learned most of his chemistry. In 1930, James Bryant Conant was chairman of the Chemistry department and personally persuaded Kistiakowsky to switch to Harvard as an assistant professor. His friends say that Kistiakowsky came only under the condition that he would be told after a set number of years whether he would get promoted-a system which did not become standard University practice until Conant became President. Kistiakowsky himself refuses to elaborate on why he came to Harvard, except to say that Conant...
...because he designed the triggering mechanism for the atomic bomb. He describes his involvement in explosives research as "a matter of pure luck." Kistiakowsky said he "expected like other chemists to become involved in chemical warfare." He offered his services in June 1940 to the National Defense Research Committee. "Conant told me, 'Get involved in explosives research,' which I thought was like being sent to Siberia." Kistiakowsky said he spent the summer of 1940 in libraries and "discovered that explosives were a very unexplored matter...
Kane was a member of the Harvard Corporation for 20 years, during the terms of Pusey and James Bryant Conant, until his retirement...
...center, this leaves Bok and John T. Dunlop, dean of the Faculty since 1969. It is entirely conceivable that Dunlop-one of Bok's closest confidants and surely the most powerful man within the Faculty-will, within the year, become the first Provost of the University since the James Conant...