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...Officers were dispatched to Conant Hall to assist Cambridge Police Department officers with a fire...
...cherish a special affection for an Americanist who has made Harvard and Harvardians so much his subject,” she said, mentioning his work on Oliver Wendell Holmes, Class of 1861, William James, Class of 1864, T.S. Eliot ’12 and former University President James B. Conant ’14 among others...
Lowell’s reforms, which were the predecessors of the distribution requirements and the Core curriculum that would follow later in the century under University Presidents James B. Conant ’14 and Derek C. Bok, required Harvard students to focus a minimum of six of their required 18 courses on one division (their concentration) while also taking at least six courses outside this primary field...
...until Conant became president that the College’s mission became social as well as academic...
...Harvard education, Conant decided, could no longer be exclusively humanistic. Conant had a vision of a meritocratic university that would reflect the liberalization of American society and prepare its students to serve and understand that society. With this in mind, Conant set up a committee under then-University Provost Paul H. Buck to design a new curriculum...