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...year was 1969. Kenneth Arrow was the proponent of a radical new theory of social choice, about to win a Nobel Prize in economics; John Rawls, Conant University professor emeritus, was an established philosophy professor about to publish his monumental work A Theory of Justice and the third professor--Amartya Kumar Sen--was, well, "some unknown...
...Journalist Nicholas B. Lemann '76, in his book The Big Test: The Secret History of American Meritocracy, credits University President James B. Conant '14 with founding the concept...
...There has been less than the usual amount of disorder and disciplinary problems have been relatively few," Conant said...
...late 1940s, however, President Conant, Dean Bender and Provost Buck began work to make Harvard a national university with a student body that reflected the breadth of American diversity...
...President Conant bemoaned the lack of jobs for students while the University employed thousands of part-time laborers. Conant went from department to department demanding that students be hired for part-time work and started the now-common practice of part-time undergraduate employment...