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...World War II, Boring took the floor of the Faculty meeting to ask: "Where is your control? How do you know this thing will work?" He suggested that the College be divided in two, one half to receive Gen Ed courses, the other to go without. "Conant replied petulantly, 'You can't test it!' Who knows? He may have been right. But I wonder. At any rate, one interesting thing about the report was that it showed how far Harvard's prestige extended; my sister was teaching biology at Yenching University in Peiping and everyone out there became very excited...
...support it. So I don't share the bitterness and contempt I hear for the President. (Dr. Skinner is upset about the support of religion). Beebe-Center--a man who did the work of ten--used to say, 'Eliot is a University man, Lowell is a College man, Conant is a University man.' Doubtless he would say Pusey is a College man. This calms me down tremendously. Eliot was a scientist, Conant was a scientist, and the next President should be a scientist...
MILTON CANIFF MORTIMER CAPLIN AL CAPP CLIFFORD P. CASE JR. CHARLES E. CHAMBERLAIN NORMAN CHANDLER CAROL CHANNING COLBY M. CHESTER INA CLAIRE MARK W. CLARK Lucius D. CLAY VAN CLIBURN CLARK CLIFFORD BENJAMIN V. COHEN LESTER LUM COLBERT ANITA COLBY EDWARD N. COLE LEROY COLLINS JAMES BRYANT CONANT FAIRFAX M. CONE JOHN SHERMAN COOPER THOMAS CORCORAN ERRETT L. CORD RALPH J. CORDINER VIRGIL COUCH JOHN COWLES EDITH CUMMINGS JOHN P. CUNNINGHAM ALEXANDER C. CUSHING
...vigorous men. The home-grown Atlantic Monthly was then publishing the work of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier, and Charles Eliot Norton. In science, to which James initially devoted his efforts, Asa Gray, Benjamin Peirce, and Louis Agassiz stood at the forefront. His earliest chemistry teacher, who--like Conant--later renounced a scientific career to become president of Harvard, found James "very interesting and agree able" but somewhat impulsive and of fickle academic tastes...
Education: James Conant, Robert Hutchins, Mary I. Bunting, Mortimer Adler, Clark Kerr, Nathan Pusey...