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...James B. Conant '14, United States High Commissioner for Germany, arrived at New York's Idlewild International Airport yesterday for talks with President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Dulles, and West-German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...while directing the Tercentenary celebration that the first exhibited his diplomatic courtesy and salesman's handshake. President Conant who was growing weary of tending to administrative affairs as well as showing Harvard off to visiting dignitaries decided to create a special office in charge of the University's public relations. He initiated the new post of Secretary to the University in 1936 and Little immediately took over the job. Two years later Little received the Adams House appointment when former Master James Phinney Baxter III left to become president of Williams...
Perhaps Finley's extensive study of Greek literature is most evident in his comparisons. "On the one hand . . . on the other hand," a classic Greek construction, has been particularly useful in Finley's introductions of President Conant. Over the years, Finley has suggested that Conant has elements of Jonathan Edwards, the theologian, Robert Boyle the scientist, and Woodrow Wilson, the statesman. Conant admits he has sat spellbound at Eliot dinners "wondering who I'm going to be tonight...
This synthesis of theologian, diplomat, and scientist may describe Conant. But by substituting poet for scientist and adding a little of the parish priest, it is also an accurate composite portrait of John H. Finley...
...blindness to the past records and prejudices of Velde and Jenner, Jones has broken the heretofor solid front of college presidents, starting with Conant last January, who have warned of the necessary evil results of outside investigations of education. President Jones should have looked into past history and the nature of public opinion a bit more closely before he broke the ranks...