Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Winston Churchill leaves Sanders Theater after receiving an honorary degree at special exercises in the fall of 1943. Titular head of Harvard's sprawling plant and ten faculties, President Conant presides at all academic functions, greets the most important visiting dignitaries, leaves others like the Duke of Windsor fwho came with- out Wfallyj and Queen Wilhelmina to his chief social assistant, Dr. David Little, Secretary to the University. As Atomic Energy Advisor in Decem- ber, 1945, President Conant goes over plans with Secretary of State Byrnes at the Moscow Foreign Ministers' Conference. With Cambridge-Washington commuting during the war and Harvard Club visiting from San Francisco to Moscow, the College was beginning to believe he was right in remarking to a Time reporter in 1946: I could be perfectly happy with a permanent Pullman ticket. ,. ls! A Keeping the University's public rela- tions running smoothly with the late City Councilman Mickey Sullivan to the Brooks- Parlored, tea-sipping Harvard Dames is part and parcel of Conant's job. At a Cam- bridge Chamber of Commerce dinner, the President casts a hopeful glance at his watch. One of Conant's biggest jobs is cementing relations with Harvard's 90,000 alumni. He has spoken to more Harvard Clubs since his inauguration in 1933, than any other Harvard President. He is here accepting the traditional S100,000 gift from the 25th reunion class at Alumni Exer- cises Commencement afternoon. l-larvarczfs Twenty-Third president Forty-six never managed to see as much of the President as it would have liked. For many of the Class the message on the opposite page is probably the first personal Contact with Harvard's twenty-third President. But the Class is nonetheless proud of his achievements as a patriot and scientist who gave un- sparingly of his energy to the successful prosecution of the war. Although some may disagree with his impersonal policy of co-ordinated decentralization in running Harvard College, few forget that the office of the President of Harvard University is all but fan- tastic in its demands and duties. A Biological Fact Conant is a vigorous exponent of his fre- quently controversial views. Perhaps the explanation lies in the cartoon of a hotly-pursued turtle, conspicu- ously placed on a sideboard by his office door in Massachusetts Hall, with the caption, Behold the turtle! He makes progress only when his neck is out . Certainlyjim Conant's neck is frequently OLIII. Yet most Forty-six men, despite their long- distance acquaintance, would agree that the Harvard- Conant sixteen year partnership has been a particularly fortunate one. At fifty-six jim Conant is the na- tion's most distinguished college president. i 1 7'One of the leaders in the development of the atom bomb as Chairman of the National Defense Research Com- mittee, Conant poses on the floor of a local garage for March of Time cameramen attempting to reenact the Los Alamos bomb test. For the first time since he became President, he returned to teaching during 1947-48 to give the new General Education course in natural sciences. '1 ...ad

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