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...Conant was scrupulously attentive to that president's job which is perhaps more important than any other -- making the right appointments at the right fundamentally, he wanted someone else to run for him. Buck did just this, and the sentiments expressed in an address to the alumni the spring after his retirement were no exaggeration: "For more than a decade he and I, if I may say so, have been a team. I happened to have worn the ranking hat, but he carried the load; the initiative, imagination, accomplishment were his. For his assistance, I shall always be grateful...
...CRIMSON will be available today, tomorrow, and Wednesday at the Union, the Dunster dining hall, Hamilton Hall at the Business School, Conant Hall on Dunster St., the Holyoke Center information desk, and 14 Plympton St. (CRIMSON Building). Wednesday's issue will distributed in the Radcliffe Yard; Thursday's will be distributed in the Union, in the Yard, and at the CRIMSON...
...members of the Class of 1937 arrived in Cambridge on a September day in 1933, and with their registration Harvard began a new school year and a new era. A. Lawrence Lowell, who had been president of the College for 24 years, was president no longer. James Bryant Conant '14 had succeeded him, and the new class was the first group to hear Conant speak as Harvard's president...
...Today more than ever," Conant told the freshmen, "the universities are the custodians of the great spiritual values which the human race has so laboriously won in art, literature, philosophy, and science." Though he felt that "the essential feature of a university has always been a small group of distinguished, learned men and a community of students drawing inspiration from their teaching," Conant emphasized that "the experience of many generations has testified to the advantages of a university education as a preparation for a career outside a university." It was a memorable occasion, and the students who heard the president...
...giants of yore are gone, now that the president has no time or inclination to develop a pet project that will make him remembered--like Woodrow Wilson's preceptorial system, Eliot's electives system, Lowell's House plan, Conant's General Education or Nieman Fellowships. Such ideas no longer come from the president's study...