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...successor has been named to head the architecture department by Joseph Hudnut '09, Dean of the School. Hudnut himself retired last spring, but has been asked by President Conant to stay on as dean this year...
...Student Council of the Graduate School of Design prepared and presented to President Conant a petition asking that the course be retained...
...certain Saturday afternoons in the spring of 1934, goes a budding legend, a youthful, wiry individual could be seen tossing pebbles against the windows of Converse chemical laboratory off Oxford Street. The individual was James Bryant Conant, twenty-third president of Harvard University, and he was engaged in a wistful attempt to return to his first love. When he had taken office the previous fall Conant had been in the midst of several exciting experiments in organic chemistry which were still being carried on by assistants. Thus every so often during his first year he would escape from the President...
...Conant today calls the legend entirely untrue, but admits that "perhaps it is symbolic. Eighteen years later he feels that he has succeeded in shutting off chemistry in a small, little-used corner of his mind. True, there are occasional twinges when he reads chemical journals or revises his standard textbook on the subject, but he has done no actual research since becoming president. He gives infrequent but spectacular demonstrations in Natural Science courses, but, as he says, "since 1933 I can't claim to have advanced the barriers of science one millimeter...
...return for giving up a possible Nobel Prize, Conant has directed a great university to some of its most notable triumphs, has made the crucial decision to build the atomic bomb, and has become the most incisive defender of liberal education in the United States today. Inevitably he has also become the sort of public figure editors cherish for making news no matter what he speaks on. Conant is a familiar figure to periodical readers; to devotees of "Scientific American" he is known as a top-notch organic chemist, to the faithful of the "Boston Pilot" he appears...