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...House plan was to work fully, it was perhaps inevitable that compulsory House membership would eventually be instituted. In 1941, President Conant summoned the graduate presidents of the final clubs and told them that within a year House membership would be a requirement for all undergraduates. Justification for the move had been a College survey that showed a shocking difference in grades between the 50-odd men still living piled on top of each other in the remaining "rat houses" along Mt. Auburn and students in the Houses...
...broke with Eisenhower when Harvard's James Conant was appointed High Commissioner to Germany and the rift has been widening ever since. Harry Truman, who knows how to use a thumb himself, introduced "McCarthyism" into the Harry Dexter White case, and Joe made the speech in which he tried to set himself up as the issue in the 1954 congressional elections, an issue which Eisenhower has emphatically said he does not want. Eisenhower & Co. have failed to make McCarthy fade away, and that failure is going to hurt in the fall of 1954 if it has not been corrected...
...sale. There is a pharmacy that once doled out pills to Longfellow and Emerson; there is a bank that has been called the "most literate bank in the world" (among the 100 "books published by our customers in the past two years" it once displayed: James Conant's Education and Liberty, Arthur Schlesinjer's Cotton Kingdom, Geologist Reginald Daly's Igneous Rock & the Depths of the Earth...
While the Harvard of President James Bryant Conant was placing the official tamp on general education, President Pusey of Lawrence was deepening his own curriculum in his own way. For one thing, ie started a freshman-studies course in which scientists, sociologists, economists, historians and men of the humanities studied and taught great books together...
Last year's Godkin lecturer was John J. McCloy, former High Commissioner to Germany, who was replaced by ex-President Conant. He suggested restraints on the military and strong envoys abroad. In the previous two years, Senator Paul A. Douglas (D-III.) and General Lucius D. Clay were the guest lecturers...