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Louise R. Conant, associate rector of the Christ Church Episcopal of Cambridge said before the service that her prayer was "for the future of the human race...
Ward 6, Precinct 3--Conant Hall, Divinity Hall, Greenough Hall, Hurlbut Hall and Pennypacker Hall. Vote at Gund Hall, 48 Quincy...
...though his term was characterized by thehealthy growth of Harvard's facilities, facultiesand international reputation, Conant left theUniversity at a moment of crisis. In 1953, highereducation was under siege from Sen. JosephMcCarthy and his red-hunting cohorts, who hadparticularly targeted what they called "theKremlin on the Charles." Even Conant had beenbrowbeaten into declaring his opposition to hiringknown Communists...
...addition, Corporation members saw thesoftspoken, devoutly Christian classicist as a manwho would bring with him qualities that had beenlacking in Conant's impersonal researchuniversity...
...fact, Riesman says, one of the few thingsHarvard's recent presidents had in common was that"everyone had a mission beyond Harvard, both foreducation and for the country as a whole." Forboth Bok and Conant, that meant spearheadingefforts to reform the nation's secondary schools...