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...first-rate, and none are high-paid. The commissioner gets only $20,000 a year, compared with $48,500 for the school superintendent of Chicago. Urgent suggestions that the office be made a Cabinet-level department have come from former HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff, former Harvard President James B. Conant, and many others, but HEW's new Secretary Anthony Celebrezze wants the improving done "within the present framework...
...sculptor he was not good enough ever to be great. He returned to Cambridge, Mass., to take on a job as Harvard's assistant dean of freshmen. After a wartime stint as an Army education officer, he was suddenly plucked out of Harvard's administration by President Conant to become, at 37, dean of the dormant School of Education Trade School to Liberal Arts. He went to work to eliminate the trade-school atmosphere, put real scholars from science and the humanities on the education faculty. To earn Harvard's pioneering Master of Arts in Teaching, students...
Died. Eger Vaughan Murphree, 63, president of Esso Research & Engineering Co. since 1947, a cool and persuasive executive-chemist who developed the 100-octane gasoline that boosted World War II bombers 43% in load-carrying capacity, served on James B. Conant's S-1 Committee, which set up the atom-smashing Manhattan Project, and in 1956 spent a year trying to unscramble the U.S. ballistic missile program as its first overall civilian boss; of a heart attack; in Summit...
...aware of their common cultural heritage. Through required courses in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, students would become acquainted with disciplines other than their own, and would be the richer as individuals, no matter what their ocupation. This idea was embodied in the 1945 report of the Conant Committee on General Education, General Education in a Free Society. Known as the Redbook, the report served as a model for general education programs at colleges across the country...
Died. Charles Hopkinson, 93, dean of U.S. portrait artists; in Manchester, Mass. A proper Bostonian known as the "court painter of Harvard" for his precise oils of Presidents Charles W. Eliot (his uncle), Abbott Lawrence Lowell and James B. Conant, Hopkinson dashed off impetuous watercolors for pleasure, but turned a cool New Englander's eye to his investigations of famous men. His first portrait was of the late E. E. Cummings as a baby, and his later works ranged from John D. Rockefeller Jr. to Herbert Hoover and a dour, purse-mouthed Calvin Coolidge, which now hangs...