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...best reply ever given to that question was published by Harvard's former President James B. Conant last week in The Education of American Teachers (McGraw-Hill; $5). The product of two years' fact finding in 22 states, Conant's answer is that the states' rules keep colleges from developing sound and imaginative ways of training teachers, that, in fact, many colleges fail to try. And in the end the states ignore their own rules when teachers certified in one field are allowed to teach in any other...
Edwin E. Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics, will speak Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. on "Reflections on the Intellectuality of Foreigners and Children" in Burr...
...plant. Wartime and the immediate post-war years did not favor any major building at the University. Post-war inflation had taken a heavy toll. It cost three times as much to run Harvard in 1953, President Pusey's first year at the College, as it did when President Conant took office twenty years earlier...
...should like to add one word more. This community has never been a community unto itself alone. Today it relationships reach throughout the whole country and everywhere into the world. As President Conant said so eloquently in June, our responsibility for the development of Western civilization is now greater than ever before. Together we must face up to this increased responsibility...
...everyone in the University, however, shared the pioneering spirit of these men. President Conant (who loathed psychoanalysis) showed little interest in the proposals for a new department, and it was only when Paul Buck became Provost during the War that the Administration gave the idea serious consideration. With the enrollment of hundreds of veterans at the College after 1945, there was for the first time in the University's history a great demand by students for courses in clinical and social psychology -- the kinds of psychology young people had met with in the armed services. ON January...