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...although many of Lowell's reforms remainimportant components of today's University, hissuccessor, too, changed Harvard's course. When theCorporation selected chemist James B. Conant '14in 1933, it decreed a future of modernlaboratories and graduate programs...
...Conant's model was the German researchuniversity, and during Lowell's later years, hedidn't hide his criticism of the tutorial system,"Riesman says. "It seemed to him British,Oxford-common-room, soft, too colloquial, tooconversational...
...Conant was Harvard's first 20th-centurypresident who had grown up in the 20th century,and during his tenure, he did much to dispel theBrahmin tone of the Lowell administration. Heencouraged admissions officers to venture beyondNew England and recruit promising students fromaround the country. On the faculty, Conantwelcomed not just gentleman humanists, but alsothe scientists and mathematicians who pioneeredthe development of the atom bomb...
Harvard's last provost, Bok said, was appointedunder former President James B. Conant, who servedas president from...
...Willard 1781-1804Samuel Webber 1806-1810John Thornton Kirkland 1810-1828Josiah Quincy 1829-1845Edward Everett 1846-1849Jared Sparks 1849-1853James Walker 1853-1860Cornelius Conway Felton 1860-1862Thomas Hill 1862-1868Charles William Eliot 1869-1909Abbott Lawrence Lowell 1909-1933James Bryant Conant 1933-1953Nathan Marsh Pusey 1953-1971Derek...