Word: conant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most part, Harvard, led by President Pusey, who succeeded James B. Conant in 1953, refused to yield to red-baiting. Yet news stories like this one in a late 1953 Crimson were common: "In a defiant reply to charges made last week by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, President Pusey yesterday declared Harvard is 'absolutely, unalterably and finally opposed to Communism,' and so far as he knows there are no communists on the Harvard faculty." Earlier, an accusation by a former Central Intelligence Agency agent forced John K. Fairbank '29, then professor of History and now Higginson Professor of History Emeritus...
Kenneth J. Arrow, James Bryant Conant University Professor, who will leave for Stanford University on July 1, said yesterday, "Harvard maintains a more diverse economics department. I believe one of the effects of this is to produce more tension among students...
That is, until last Tuesday, when Kenneth J. Arrow, Conant University Professor, released a letter stating that the ACSR had overestimated both the short-and long-term costs of divesting of all stocks in companies having a minority of their operations in South Africa (MOSAs...
...Loring Conant Jr. '61, president of the Harvard Glee Club Foundation, pointed out that in any transition process there are casualties. "This has been rougher than any transition period before because Jim [Marvin] is the first conductor hired from outside Harvard," Conant said. "To look at it objectively, Jim is an unwanted guest. If the students had had their choice, they would have kept John Adams. With that background, Jim certainly didn't have a red carpet that was just lush with welcome. It's shame, because he has had a wealth of musical experience...
...Conant agreed. "There are a lot of choral techniques that are just exciting that Jim is using. I think that when they are applied as a whole, the effect is going to be electifying...