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...years earlier he had been offered a permanent job in Ohio, but had refused, saying. "I'm going to be married and the woman I'm going to be married and the woman I'm marrying wouldn't live in Ohio. If she did, I wouldn't marry her." Conant's family has lived in New England since...
...this research that first brought him to the Corporation's notice as a possible successor to President Lowell. He was not an obvious choice by any means, but he did meet the traditional basic requirements he had a Boston background, a Harvard degree, and a spotless personal life. Conant himself did not realize he was under serious consideration by the Corporation until one day when one of its members casually asked him his opinion of another professor who was being talked of for the job. Conant gave an enthusiastic recommendation, but as he says, it was a giveaway, a "watch...
When it did finally come. Conant's election was a precedent breaking one not because he was a chemist Eliot had been one but because he was a commoner, an unproper Bostonian. As the CRIMSON editorialized. "Conant is a man who has to a large extent risen from the ranks, and who is not a member of that aristocracy represented by the Eliot Lowell binary...
Tabbed as an incipient revolutionary, Conant moved carefully his first year in office. He earned the gratitude of undergraduates by eliminating the "rising bell" which for generations had shocked Yard-dwellers out of bed at 7 a.m., and he gave his approval to the serving of bear in House dining halls. For the most part, however, he took to heart the confidential advice of out going. President Lowell "the first duty of Harvard's president is to resist pressure" and steeled himself for the task...
...president of a $300 million corporation, the president of Harvard cannot often concern himself no directly with faculty affairs. The University's problems often resolve into financial once, and over the years Conant has become a wise and even a bit cynical about the whole problem. No hand shaking fund-raiser himself, he greatly appreciated the need for such...