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President Emeritus James B. Conant '14, has proposed that high school students be advanced according to their ability and skills. Conant's suggestions, the result of a survey sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation, appeared in yesterday's issue of Life Magazine...
...Wind Bag? Bartley would return to President Eliot's "minimum" faith of "love and service to one's neighbor" and war against "the evils which afflict humanity." These tenets he would buttress with President Emeritus James B. Conant's basic answer to the challenge of the Soviet or fascist view of life-a faith in a "wide diversity of beliefs and the tolerance of this diversity...
...There are ways that do not lead to such dead ends for the scientist, but they are difficult ways. One is the way of a Conant or a Killian: deliberately to enter into the experiences and to assume the responsibilities and the disciplines that have to do with the art of human relations. The product of this dual discipline, in the scientist-statesman, can be one of our most valuable public servants in times like this. "For those who do not have a genius for the double task, there is another choice. This is simply to put their truth...
Uneasy Future. Onetime Harvard President James B. Conant offered a terse definition of a university ("a place where people ask questions"), and Harvardmen Charles Malik (Ph.D., '37), Foreign Minister of Lebanon, Senator John Kennedy ('40). and Defense Secretary Neil McElroy ('25) philosophized about Harvard. So did Author John Marquand ('15): "If you have ever been to Harvard, you will never be allowed to forget it. I have found that I can get on very well with most people until they discover this error in my past." Wearily superior. Music Man Leonard Bernstein ('39) recited...
...Conant admitted that he had argued against some of Kennan's ideas and reiterated that these plans would probably meet with disfavor in Germany today...