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...letter, Conant wondered “how the free world is going to get through the next fifty years.” He then expressed confidence that, if Harvard were not destroyed, it would be maintaining its “traditions of academic freedom, of tolerance for heresy.” The connection between the two kinds of freedom would have been painfully evident in 1951. Human freedom—the privilege of self-determination—had very nearly been lost only a few years earlier, in World War II. And academic freedom—the special responsibility enjoyed...
...statistics faculty have had within their discipline. The weekend’s proceedings also served to commemorate the department’s founder, C. Frederick Mosteller, a specialist in public health, medicine, and education who died last summer. “Fred was the constant educator,” Conant Professor of Education Judith D. Singer said in a speech Friday afternoon. Mosteller served as the department’s first chairman when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) established it, after a two-minute faculty debate, in 1957. Previously, statistics courses at Harvard had been taught within other...
While some piled on the caviar, foie gras and truffles (Thomas Keller, Hlne Darroze and Gary Danko) and one made an absolute pig of himself (Mario Batali), the majority of the chefs picked incredibly simple foods. Scott Conant and Tyler Florence wanted fried chicken; Jacques...
Townley—who lives in a Shady Hill house that he said was once inhabited by Harvard President James B. Conant ’14—added that the resident who purchased the square in 1972 did not pay taxes on it until 1998 because both the neighbors and the city had assumed the land could not be developed...
...need to define ourself and not simply let ourselves be defined by others,” Faust said in the interview.Perhaps most telling was an anecdote Faust used to close her speech. She read from a recently unearthed time capsule from former Harvard president James B. Conant ’14 —a letter written 50 years ago and marked for the University President at the outset of the 21st century “and not before.”Faust said in the interview that she approached the letter both as one of Conant?...