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...step is more like that of a sophomore late for class than that of a man in charge of nine separate faculties, more than 3,000 teachers and scholars, and 10,155 students, not counting a swarm of Radcliffe girls ("We are not coeducational in theory," said former President Conant, "only in practice"). He is the first non-New Englander and the second non-Bostonian* ever to achieve his position. More remarkable, he was born and bred in Iowa (a place that Boston dowagers have allegedly been calling "Ohio"). His present position therefore represents quite a leap, for Harvard...
Applications for the new James Bryant Conant Scholarship for study in Germany are due by March 1, Dean Leighton announced yesterday...
...scholarship, established by the Class of 1928 in honor of former President Conant, now U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, provides a stipend of $2500 every other year to University students for study in Germany. In alternate years, a German student will receive the award for study here...
After more years of teaching and lecturing (mostly at the universities of Utah and New Mexico) and meeting the products of U.S. public education, he has come to the conclusion that-former President Conant of Harvard to the contrary-we need private schools...
...here is that in this case, as in that of the School of Education, an excessive amount of its income depends on annual gifts. . . There is thus much too high a degree of precariousness in its operations, and I join in the wish several times reiterated by President Conant that its activity can soon be put on a more secure financial basis...