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...hundred eighteen national figures, including James B. Conant '14. President emeritus, and Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government, have endorsed a statement asking that Americans demonstrate their support of the United States commitment in Vietnam...
...amendment, proposed by Edwin E. Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics, urger making departmental courses equivalent to General Education courses. Under this plan departmental courses would be in open competition with Gen. Ed courses and students could satisfy their Gen Ed requirement with either...
...1930s and '40s thus took the stress from textbooks and placed it on self-discipline and experimentation. The classrooms became more exciting, but soon educators were out-Deweying Dewey; permissiveness, and ultimately anti-intellectualism spoiled Dewey's dream. Thanks to reformers like former Harvard President James Conant (TIME cover, Sept. 14, 1959), schools began turning to the ideal of comprehensive education as well as cultural development for all children...
...understand the Furry decision it is necessary first to remember the unusual administrative set-up which Conant's departure and the impending Congressional investigations necessitated. The leadership of the University had fallen to Paul Buck, who, as provost and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was given the job as chairman or a special administrative committee to assume the President's duties. This committee was composed of Dr. Roger I. Lee and Charles A. Coolidge, Fellows of Harvard College, and Paul Cabot, the University Treasurer. The other important ad hoc group was an Advisory Committee of the Faculty...
...body in the Furry case was the Corporation. With Conant gone, Buck, as Provost and Dean, had become, more than ever, the Faculty's representative to to the Corporation. And it would be the five Fellows--Lee, Coolidge, William Marbury, R. Keith Kane, and Thomas Lamont (in descending order of seniority)--and Cabot who would make the final determination about Furry...