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...thing, there was the war. Pearl Harbor was little more than two months after they registered Freshman year. But even before that, war was the undercurrent which gave their Harvard days a different flavor-however minor-from that of their older brothers and fathers. Harvard President James Bryant Conant and the CRIMSON both came out in favor of an immediate declaration of war first thing in September. The CRIMSON's previous policy had been to advocate "anything short of war" to aid the allies, but it said that it now found that policy "untenable." The CRIMSON story on Conant...
...beginning of the Summer term in 1942, the end of the class's freshman year, President Conant delivered a speech to students in which he said, "Class privilege destroys our frontier heritage. We must curtail hereditary privilege and extend the doctrines of equal opportunity. We must reverse the trend of the past 50 years and restore a high degree of social mobility in the country." In 1941 Conant had written an article for Atlantic Monthly in which he made several proposals for reform of American society in order to justify the loss of young men's lives in the upcoming...
After the war Harvard had changed and the country had changed too-if not quite in the way Conant had in mind. Harvard's admissions policy was reformed to admit fewer Boston Brabmins from the right prep schools, and more students from varied backgrounds. And American capitalism had exploded after the war into a new plane. It needed aggressive, ambitious clear headed men-not the gentle cut of St. Marks and Middlesex...
...notion that students should be able to concentrate in a time of crisis is a failure of imagination, and ultimately a failure of introspection," said Edwin E. Moise, Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics...
...retired USIA Foreign Service officer who knew Ambassador and Mrs. James Conant well in Bonn, I question the reference [March 16] to that charming and effective lady as his erstwhile "financée." Does that term reflect your reviewer's appraisal of her worth as an individual . . . or to the Ambassador? Or did your pencil slip...