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...President Conant and I acted as a team. Now that team is no more," Buck said last night. "I would prefer to return to teaching...
...JAMES BRYANT CONANT, 59, president of Harvard University, to be High Commissioner for Germany. Of Plymouth Pilgrim stock, a precocious science student at Roxbury Latin School and later at Harvard, the eminent educator became chairman of his alma mater's chemistry department before assuming its presidency in 1933. In World War II, as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he bossed a $2 billion research program to develop radar, antiradar, various chemical warfare projects, and nuclear fission. Putting in some 250,000 miles of travel, bounded by Cambridge, Washington and Los Alamos, he deputized for Vannevar Bush, served...
...selection of Sert to succeed retiring Dean Joseph Hudnut was announced Wednesday by President Conant. The internationally known designer and city planner will take office September...
Others have achieved eminence in education by following daring new formulae and sticking to them in the face of constant attack. Conant reached greatness by refusing to dictate policy, by avoiding the panacea, the rule of thumb, and the easy answer. He reached it by the exercise of courage and integrity, by constantly affirming in practice his faith in the individual and in the necessity of his freedom, by encouraging and demanding honest of his freedom, by encouraging and demanding hones and unfettered seeking after truth...
Perhaps his training as a chemist shaped Conant as a college president. Knowing that the scientist must be at liberty to challenge accepted theories, he considered that same freedom an essential requirement in every field of knowledge. He was not only the leading defender of academic freedom, he was its personification. He would no more fire a good teacher than keep a poor one just because his political opinions were unpopular...