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...warm fall night in September, 1935, President Conant welcomed the 1010 members of the Class of 1939 with a strong speech, asserting that the individual integrity and freedom of thought encouraged by a liberal education would help defeat the "dogmatic prophecies" of the European dictatorships. At the University Theater, Shirley Temple was starring in her latest movie, "Curley...
Nearly four years later, President Conant's tone had changed but not his message. In the Baccalaureate sermon he urged '39 to "resist the tumult of the moment, the impact of the immediate present, the corrosive atmosphere of potential strife," and develop their own talents and personalities. At the UT Mickey Rooney was featured in the title role of "Huckleberry Finn...
...tercentenary celebration made the most exciting time at Harvard since World War I. About 15,000 people took part in the festivities and 51 colleges sent official representatives. Among the guest was Peter Harvard, a young Englishman who was the only living descendant of the University's founder. President Conant gave a widely publicized speech in which he decried the "educational chaos" and "intellectual anarchy" he saw around...
...first scoops, for the Springfield, Mass., Republican, concerned an academic scandal at Amherst College that led to the forced resignation of Amherst President Alexander Meiklejohn. And even before departing the Boston Globe, his last paper, Lyons began doubling as a public relations aide to James B. Conant, then Harvard's president...
...like leaving a teenage boy and girl together. In 1946 all classes above freshman year were made "coordinate;" in 1949 every single class had united. In 1952 Conant said, rather sheepishly, that he "never would have predicted...