Word: conant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks preceding the grand opening, anticipation ran so high that night security guard Leo Shean reported staving off numerous curious undergraduates, some of whom went so far as to forge letters from President Conant authorizing them to see the site...
...speech at the library's opening ceremony, President James B. Conant '14 extolled Lamont's virtues: "The conventional red tape of library bureaucracy has disappeared. The undergraduate in quest of knowledge or inspiration, whether he is self-propelled or motivated by dread of approaching examinations or papers to be written, can go directly to the shelves...
...that day, The Crimson's front page informed the Harvard community that President James B. Conant '14 had signed his name to a report declaring card-carrying Communists unfit to teach in America's education system...
...Coming barely one week after The Crimson ran a series on faculty dismissals and FBI investigations at schools as close as Yale University and the University of New Hampshire, Conant's stance seemed an unusual departure from Harvard's previously strong stance in favor of free speech...
...Conant: A Nuclear Power...