Word: conants
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...with President Conant, the war, and the manpower shortage, the roof fell in. To save the professors' time, girls were allowed into a few of the more advanced Harvard classes. "With all those uniforms around, it felt like we were entering the navy, said a "Cliffedweller...
...purpose," James Bryant Conant once told the Board of Overseers, "is to cultivate in the largest possible number of our future citizens an appreciation of both the responsibilities and the benefits which come to them because they are Americans." Over one thousand college students from all over the country, including many from Harvard and Radcliffe, will go to Mississippi this summer for a purpose very much like that which President Conant attributed to Harvard. If Senator Hilbun's bill is passed, it will make a mockery of the most fundamental precepts of education in a democracy...
Recent lecturers have included President Clark Kerr of the University of California, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York State, Gov. Luis Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico, James B. Conant '14, and C.P. Snow...
...ever before taken a leave of absence, it is customary at Harvard for the senior member of the Corporation--who corresponds to the chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees--to take over for an absent president. Charles A. Coolidge served in this capacity during the leaves of President Conant and Pusey...
...more specific group of compositions, emphasizing listening assignments rather than a textbook. Listening courses should study the sonorities of instruments, the texture of chamber music, and composers' individual peculiarities of style, and should stress the difference between program and non-program music. Woodworth also applies some of James Conant's ideas in pleading for more and better music teachers...