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...Conant--James Conant, the chap they just elected president of Harvard...
...Conant--James Conant...
...President's athletic pretensions have not always lain along such hap-hazard lines. In the summer of 1937 he went with a group to climb in the Sierra Nevadas--"real rope stuff" Conant refers to it. The next two summers he climbed in the Canadian Rockies and then was elected to the American Alphine Club. A wrenched back ship plan, the CRIMSON decided that it would be appropriate to cease talking about the Age of Lowell and begin to realize the Age of Conant had arrived. Even abolition of the beer plan in Since 1760 men living in the Yard...
Further evidence of that new deal came later in the fall when Repeal went into effect in Cambridge. Students, liberated from the puritanical bonds of the Volstead Act, began showing up at meals in the Houses with bottles tucked under their arms. The matter was brought to Conant's attention and he immediately issued a statement: "I am ruling that no student may bring in any beverage of any sort whatever to the dining halls to be taken with his meals...
This did not mean that Conant's regime was going to be a prohibitionist one. Less than a month later the University itself applied for and received a license to sell beer in the dining halls, and the Second World War put an end to his mountain-climbing expeditions, but since the war he has continued, as he says, "in the hobby of walking uphill." His other outdoor recreation at present consists of trout fishing. Last summer's trip to Australia and New Zealand was a disappointment to him only in that it was winter Down Under and the fishing...