Word: conants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...title of University Professor is Harvard’s highest academic honor, certifying the recipient to teach in any of Harvard’s schools. The University professorships were instituted by former University President James B. Conant ’14 in 1935 to support “professors with roving commissions whose teaching and creative work shall not be hampered by departmental considerations.” Thomas W. Lamont, Class of 1892, endowed the Lamont chair for “a scholar pre-eminent in the field of political economy...
...University professorships were instituted by President James B. Conant ’14 in 1935 to support “professors with roving commissions whose teaching and creative work shall not be hampered by departmental considerations...
...officer was dispatched on the report of a security guard in foot pursuit of a subject that was observed breaking into a vending machine at Conant Lab. Check of the area came back with negative results. The suspect is described as a white male, thirty years of age, full beard, wearing blue jeans, a backpack and a puffy black coat...
Buffeted by charges of elitism and a lack of diversity, Conant expanded scholarships and tried to draw more students from the Midwest...
...Conant made it clear that it was no longer acceptable for Harvard to be filled with rich boys,” Shoemaker adds...