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...JAMES BRYANT CONANT, 59, president of Harvard University, to be High Commissioner for Germany. Of Plymouth Pilgrim stock, a precocious science student at Roxbury Latin School and later at Harvard, the eminent educator became chairman of his alma mater's chemistry department before assuming its presidency in 1933. In World War II, as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he bossed a $2 billion research program to develop radar, antiradar, various chemical warfare projects, and nuclear fission. Putting in some 250,000 miles of travel, bounded by Cambridge, Washington and Los Alamos, he deputized for Vannevar Bush, served...
Both the University and Radcliffe have received bequests of approximately $100,000 each in the will of Miss Elizabeth Bryant of Brookline...
According to the will field last Thursday in the Norfolk Probate Court, well over half of Miss Bryant's estate was left to the two institutions...
...president of Harvard, James Bryant Conant got around a good deal. He was not only the untitled monarch of American education, but also the chief social figure in a highly social community--Harvard. Some of his social obligations he enjoyed, others he took up grudgingly...
...James Bryant Conant, the twenty-fifth President of Harvard University, resigned at noon today to become United States High Commissioner in Germany...