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...University had begun to admit women into classes, although in an ironic historical note, Conant declared, "Contrary to certain scare-heads in the papers, this date will not mark the beginning of coeducation here in Cambridge...
...Bill meant that returning veterans across the country would be able to afford a college education. Prior to the war, Conant, originally from middle-class Dorchester, had created new "National Scholarships" for students from the southern and western states to broaden Harvard's student body. But it took the war and the G.I. Bill to have a significant impact on the homogeneous student population...
Harvard, like much of America before Pearl Harbor was somewhat complacent about the gathering clouds of war. But there was one figure at the University who defied the isolationists and the appeasers--Conant...
...Although Conant had been rather ambivalent about the German army's march across Europe prior to the Nazi invasion of Poland, after the start of the war on September 1, Conant "emerged on the national scene as a leading interventionist and in the Roosevelt administration as an apostle of military preparedness," according to a biography of Conant written by James B. Hershberg...
...next year and a half, Conant played a major role in the interventionist movement. He began to make more frequent trips to Washington and also became a member of the influential "Gentleman's Club," an informal group of wealthy activists who used their connections with the influential elite to create the public support necessary...