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...accompaniment of occasional camera flashes and loud applause, Conant University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus John Rawls yesterday ended what may well be his final undergraduate lecture...
Harvard's tradition of turning to outside scholars dates back to the presidency of James B. Conant '14. Ironically, he was seeking to avoid a trend of tenuring only faculty insiders...
...personally think there is a tradition to have scientists involved in the administration," said Professor of Chemistry Cynthia M. Friend. Before Bok, who is a law scholar, two of Harvard's presidents in this century, James Bryant Conant '14 and Charles W. Eliot '04, were scientists
...Lawrence Lowell '77, who followed Eliot in 1909, was a Harvard government professor who had dabbled in Boston politics and the law. When James Bryant Conant '13 was tapped to lead Harvard in 1933, he was a Harvard chemistry professor...
Katz's thesis might be enhanced by some institutional memory. A prominent academic who was a former president not only of Harvard but of The Crimson, James Bryant Conant '14, was a leading advocate of Universal Military Training prior to and during Korea. He objected to student deferments urged by many academics, politicians and college students. In his memoirs, Conant characterized deferments as "undemocratic...and would establish a privileged class." Since not every able-bodied young person was ever needed, Conant supported a random lottery "in the interests of fairness...