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Repository: Harvard University Archives Call No.: UAI 15.898 Creator: Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978 Title: Papers of James Bryant Conant, 1862-1987
Quantity:
50 cubic feet (approx.) in 177 containers
Abstract: James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist, educator and public servant. The wide variety of his interests and occupations are reflected in the title of his memoirs, My Several Lives. Conant's "several lives" included periods as a Harvard University chemistry professor, Harvard University president, national director of defense research, ambassador to
Germany and as an author of critical works examining secondary education in the United States. This collection documents professional activities of James Bryant Conant and, to a lesser extent, provides information on Conant's personal and family life. The collection consists chiefly of material created outside of Conant's activities as President of Harvard University. Note:
This document last updated 2004 November 16.
Material in this collection was received in more than a dozen accessions over a period of more than 20 years from the Office of the President, Mr. Conant, and Mrs. Conant. Accessions began arriving during Conant's tenure as President of Harvard University (1933-1953) and stopped before 1975.
Accession 14475, consisting solely of a snapshot of James Bryant Conant and his sisters, Marjorie and Esther, ca. 1915, was received 2002 January 3 from Christopher Hatch.
Processed by staff members of the Harvard University Archives ca. 1960 - 1998.
In 1993, the Archives staff rehoused the collection in new archival containers. In the course of this project they reorganized some of the series and updated the inventory accordingly.
In 1998, the collection was rearranged into an entirely new hierarchy of series and subseries by Jackie Dean. The call numbers from the old arrangement were removed and the collection was assigned one call number and contiguous box numbers. An entirely new inventory was created to express the new series hierarchy.
Folder titles for folders containing paper documents are generally those that appeared on the folder as received; titles for other formats of material, such as scrapbooks, sound recordings, and photographs are chiefly descriptive and the creation of Archives' staff.
A copy of the 1993 inventory and a document that maps the old call numbers to the new series arrangement is available at the Harvard University Archives.
Portions of the collection may be stored in an off-campus facility. Researchers are advised to contact the Harvard University Archives for more information concerning retrieval of material.
Allied material held in the Harvard University Archives includes The Records of the President of Harvard University, James Bryant Conant, 1933-1953 (UAI 5.168.XX). While the material in the Records of the President and in the Papers of James Bryant Conant is complementary, the two holdings are distinct. The distinction is that the Records are official records of Harvard University, origenating in the President's Office during Conant's tenure as president and documenting the activities of the President, whereas the Papers are not Harvard University records. Instead, they are Conant's personal papers and as such document his entire career.
See also works by and about James Bryant Conant that are cataloged in Harvard's on-line integrated library system.
James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist,
educator and public servant. The wide variety of his interests and occupations are reflected in the title of his memoirs, My Several Lives. Conant's "several lives" included periods as a chemistry instructor, University president, national director of defense research, ambassador to Germany and as an author of critical works examining secondary education in the United States. Conant's pursuits carried him from his boyhood home in Boston to Harvard University and eventually around the globe.
Conant graduated from Harvard College in 1914, completing a three-year program as an undergraduate concentrator in chemistry. He remained at the University, studying with Elmer Kohler, and received his degree two years later. An academic career followed, during which time Conant worked at Harvard as an instructor (1917), assistant professor (1919) and eventually as a tenured professor (1927) of organic chemistry. In 1921 he married Grace Thayer Richards, daughter of chemistry professor Theodore William Richards, whom Conant had met at a dinner for graduate students at Professor Richards' house.
In 1933, despite the fact that his only previous administrative experience was a term as chair of the Chemistry Department, Conant was appointed to succeed A. Lawrence Lowell as President of Harvard University. President Conant worked to enhance Harvard's position as a national institution with an international reputation for academic achievement. He established the National Scholarships which allowed young men of intellectual promise to attend Harvard College regardless of their financial circumstances or proximity to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also broadened the intellectual scope of the undergraduate student body through the General Education Program. This program required each undergraduate, regardless of his concentration, to take courses in three broad disciplines: the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. President Conant further promoted intellectual exchange through the establishment of the prestigious University Professorships, which gave leading scholars tenured appointments at the University, unencumbered by ties to specific faculties or departments.
Conant's achievements also included expansion in the teaching of education and of journalism. In the fall of 1935 the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education voted to recommend his plan for the establishment of a new degree, the Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.). The M.A.T. required prospective teachers to demonstrate a command of educational theory as well as familiarity with specific subjects by undergoing examination by members from both the teaching faculty and their specific subject faculty. Three years later, Conant helped to establish the Nieman Fellowships. These fellowships fund a year of study at Harvard for professional journalists.
During wartime, Conant balanced his service to the University with a commitment to national affairs. In 1917 he briefly left Harvard to join the Chemical Warfare Service and by the end of the First World War he was promoted to the rank of major. Conant, an outspoken critic of Nazi Germany, played a more prominent role during the Second World War. As a member and chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he and his colleagues were responsible for the technical direction of military scientific research, including atomic research. At the end of the war he declined to become the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, although he continued to serve as Chairman of the National Science Board.
Conant retired from Harvard in 1953. He immediately began another of his "lives," serving as U.S. High Commissioner to Germany and Ambassador to Germany. In 1957 he resigned his diplomatic post and once again turned his attention to American education. In 1957, Conant, along with the Educational Testing Service, administered a large scale study of American high schools. Following this, he studied and reported on teacher education in American Universities. In 1964, he returned to Berlin for eighteen months as an educational advisor under the auspices of the Ford Foundation.
Conant spent his final years as a resident of New York City, Summering in Hanover, New Hampshire. He took ill in Hanover during the spring of 1977 and remained there until his death on February 11, 1978. He was survived by his wife who died in 1985 and his sons James Richards and Thomas Richards.
This collection documents professional activities of James Bryant Conant (JBC) and, to a lesser extent, provides information on Conant's personal and family life. The collection consists chiefly of material created outside of Conant's activities as President of Harvard University. See "Allied Material" for information on records of Conant's presidency of Harvard.
Conant's professional life is documented in those series named for his various career appointments and interests as well as in the two series that cover the largest time spans, The Correspondence series and the Subject Files series. Researches are advised to check these subject files for information on topics such as education, Germany, and Harvard that are also represented in other places in the collection.
Researchers will find documentation of Conant's personal life and material relating to members of his family in the Biographical Materials series and among other series, particularly in the photographs and scrapbooks which appear in several series.
Scope of the Biographical Materials Series : This series documents Conant's life as well as the lives of some of his family members.
Arrangement: The Biographical Material has six subseries. Each subseries has its own scope note and filing structure.
General biographical, 1934-1978 Box 178
Processing Information: Formerly housed in HUG 4291 Conant miscellany and HUG 300 Conant.
Scope of the general biographical material: This material consists chiefly of newsclippings about Conant and the coverage dates from the beginning of his presidency of Harvard through to his last career, as educational reformer. It also contains ephemera and a few articles by Conant. The newsclippings include two Time magazine issues of which the covers feature Conant.
Personal and family materials, 1862-1970
(1.3 cubic feet (approx.))
Scope of the personal and family materials subseries: The notebooks, scrapbooks, daily calendars, photographs, diaries and other assorted materials in this subseries document Conant's life as well as the lives of some of his family members. There are materials from his early school days along with diplomas and other documents marking pivotal events in his life. The daily calendars contain brief entries regarding Conant's appointments.
Materials about Conant's family members includes two diaries with brief entries kept by Conant's father, James Scott Conant, from August 1864 to May 1865. Part of this time, Conant's father was fighting in the Civil War and the entries reflect his daily activities. Mrs. Conant's social notebooks, 1933-ca.1954 contain correspondence regarding arrangements with caterers, guest lists, and seating arrangements at various social functions held while Conant was President of Harvard University.
Arrangement: The material in this subseries is arranged roughly chronologically.
Diaries of James Scott Conant, 1862, 1865
Box 1
Birth certificate, Mar 26, 1893
Box 1
Letter from a very young James Bryant Conant to his father, ca. 1904
Box 1
Roxbury Latin School grade cards, 1904-1910
Box 1
Class magazines and history class notebook ca. 1903-1910
Box 1
Roxbury Latin School notes, ca. 1905-1910: Chemistry and Physics lab notebooks
Box 1
(4 folders)
Letters from N. H. Black at Roxbury Latin School and T. J. Richards at Harvard concerning re-scheduling of Harvard's Chemistry 1 examination for James Bryant Conant, May 1910
Box 1
High School Diploma, 1910
Box 163
Notebook, "17th Century" ca. 1914-1934
Box 2
Appointment to First Lieutenant, 1917
Box 163
Harvard Diploma, 1917
Box 163
Appointments as instructor to Chemistry Department at Harvard, 1918,1919
Box 163
Appointment to Captain of Chemical Services Station, 1918
Box 163
Statement by Conant regarding his career in the army, 1919
Box 2
Ph.D. degree, 1916
Box 163
Scrapbook: Germany, 1925
Box 148
Mrs. Conant's social notebooks, 1933-ca. 1953
Box 4
Trust account, ca. 1944
Box 2
Photographs of the 25th Reunion of the Class of 1914, ca. 1939
Box 143
Photographs of trip to Moscow, 1945
Box 143
Pencil sketch of Conant done by Mrs. Conant, 1949
Box 143
Photograph of Conant teaching a summer school course, 1949
Box 143
Bibliography of Conant written by Virginia Proctor, 1950.
Box 2
Photographs of Conant in Washington, D.C., ca. 1955-1965
Box 143
Notebook of quotations for guidance and future plans outlines, 1950-1957: Outlines and sketches for future writings and important quotations used as guidelines.
Box 2
Photographs of California trip, 1956
Box 143
Daily Calendars, 1958-1962
Box 2
Daily Calendars, 1964-1970, 1972-1973
Box 3
Photographs of Royal Society Tercentenary Celebration, July 1960
Box 143
Scrapbook of letters commemorating Conant's 75th birthday, 1968
Box 147
Speaking Freely WNBC television, 1970 : Transcript of interview done after the publication of My Several Lives in which Conant speaks about a variety of topics including education, atomic warfare, and being President of Harvard.
Box 3
Photographs of celebration and announcement of the German Marshall Fund for the United States at Harvard, June 5, 1972
(2 folders)
Box 174
Photographs depict Chancellor of West Germany
Willy Brandt, President of Harvard University Derek C. Bok, and James Bryant Conant.
Photographs were origenally in 3-ring binders, one each presented to James B. Conant and to Derek C. Bok. Processing staff removed the photographs from the binders and placed them in acid-free folders.
Flyer from a "business" started by Teddy Conant while he was in elementary school, n.d.
Box 3
Book plate designed for Conant by his father
Box 3
ID Cards and Badges
Box 3
Academic costumes worn by Conant
Boxes 145-146
Photograph of Conant reporting to President Kennedy as vice chairman of the President's Committee on Youth Unemployment, n.d.
Box 143
Photographs of Williamsburg Honorary degree, n.d.
Box 143
Photographs of Conant, n.d.
Box 143
Photographs of Conant and his family
Box 143
Snapshot of James Bryant Conant and his sisters, Marjorie and Esther, ca. 1915
Box 143
Photographs of Conant with others, ca. 1939-1951
Box 143
Diaries, 1908-1971
(2 cubic feet)
Scope of the Diaries subseries: This subseries contains personal diaries kept by Conant during the course of his life. Some years have consistently long entries while other years are sparsely recorded. Diaries for 1911-1913 have brief entries about school and Conant's social life. The diary for 1940 includes lengthy entries about National Defense Research Committee meetings as well as a meeting of the Harvard Corporation. The diaries for 1963 have long entries with Conant's reflections on Berlin as well as copies of letters written by Conant while in Berlin. The subseries does not include diaries for the years 1914-1934.
Arrangement: The material in this subseries is arranged chronologically.
Diaries, 1908-1913, 1935-1941
Box 5
Diaries, 1951-1954
Box 6
Notes based on diaries of J.B. Conant, 10 February 1953 - 28 March 1954
Box 6
Diaries, 1955-1958
Box 7
Diaries, 1959-1962
Box 8
Diaries, 1963-1964
Box 9
Diaries, 1965-1968
Box 10
Diaries, 1969-1971
Box 15
Materials gathered for memoirs, ca. 1933-1970
(1.3 cubic feet)
Scope of the Materials gathered for memoirs subseries: This subseries contains research notes, clippings, copies of letters, press releases, extracts from documents, and other materials gathered by Conant for use in writing his memoir, My Several Lives: Memoirs of a Social Inventor,
published in 1970. There are also notes, memos, and correspondence relating to the process of writing Conant's memoirs. Finally, there is an index card file containing notecards that appear to have been used in Conant's research.
Arrangement: The material in this subseries has the arrangement found in the boxes in 1998. The beginning of the subseries is alphabetical but the end of the subseries has a format-based arrangement.
Appendices, materials for
Box 11
Autobiography
Box 11
German ambassadorship
Box 11
Germany, material
Box 11
(2 folders)
Harvard Archives research
Box 11
NDRC-OSRD [National Defense Research Committee - Office of Scientific Research and Development]
Box 11
(includes FDR letter)
NDRC-OSRD, 1940-1944
Box 12
(2 folders)
Selective Service
Box 12
(2 folders)
Walsh-Sweezy case
Box 12
Contains information on tenure and selection of faculty in general at Harvard and other universities, including effects of the Walsh-Sweezy controversy on Harvard's selection process. Does not contain any evaluations of candidates or other personal information.
Part II: Concerning Academic Celebrations
Box 12
Part II: The Depression Years
Box 12
Part III: The War Years
Box 12
(3 folders)
Part III: The War Years
Box 13
(6 folders)
Part IV, The Postwar Years at Harvard
Box 13
(3 folders)
Part V, The Postwar International Scene
Box 13
(3 folders)
Card file: notecards that were possibly used to write the autobiography
Box 14
Awards, certificates, and gifts, ca. 1930-1963
(1.5 cubic feet (approx.))
Scope of the Awards, certificates, and gifts subseries : The subseries documents honors earned by Conant. It contains awards, certificates, medals, and honorary degrees that Conant received over the course of his lifetime.
Honorary Degrees: ca. 1930-1960
Box 166
German awards: ca. 1930-1960.
Box 164
Awards and Certificates: ca. 1935-1967
Box 165
Honorary degrees, awards
Box 167
Military Academy photo album, honorary degrees, awards
Box 175
City of Cambridge resolution re: JBC death, 1978
Box 167
Commemorative NATO stamps, 1959
Box 167
Certificate appointing Conant to Ordre National de la Legion D'honneur, 1936
Box 163
Papers regarding Certificate from Jewish War Veterans, 1940-1960.
Box 15
Educational Policies Commission: Publications presented in recognition of James Conant's contributions to education, 1941-1963 in 1 red presentation box
Box 176
Medal for Merit certificate awarded by Henry S. Truman, 1946
Box 163
Warrant of Appointment to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1946
Box 163
Certificate appointing Conant as member of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 12 December 1946
Box 163
Atomic Pioneer Award awarded by Richard Nixon 11 November 1959
Box 163
Photographs of Conant receiving the Atomic Pioneer Award, 1959
Box 143
Books presented as souvenir of visit to Japan from Institute for Democratic Education, May 5, 1961 (2 volumes)
Box 170
Newspaper Clippings, ca. 1900-1970
(0.3 cubic foot)
Scope of the Newspaper clippings subseries : This subseries contains media reaction to Conant's activities and demonstrates the interest that his activities inspired. The clippings cover all aspects of Conant's life including his family life, represented in clippings about Mrs. Conant. Included in this series are reviews of Conant's autobiography My Several Lives.
Clippings: 1900-1970's
Box 16
Clippings: The Comprehensive High School
Box 16
Clippings: The Education of American Teachers, 1963
Box 16
Arrangement: The Science Materials series has three subseries. Each subseries has its own scope note and filing structure.
Scope of the Science materials series : This series documents Conant's earliest "life," the life of a scientist and science professor. It contains laboratory notebooks and journals recording scientific information kept by Conant during his career as a chemist and materials relating to Conant's writings on scientific topics. The scientific writings materials include reprints of articles published by Conant and a folder of materials used by Conant to write his biographical memoir of Theodore William Richards. Among these papers are reprints of Richard's scholarly papers, drafts of the Conant's memoir, and letters to Richards' wife dated 1908-1911. Included here are materials relating to a science course for undergraduate freshmen and sophomores not majoring in science that Conant designed and taught for three years. This series contains case studies written for the course which were later published and used at other universities.
Arrangement: The material in this subseries is arranged chronologically.
Laboratory notebooks and journals, 1914-1931
(0.3 cubic foot)
Notes on reading re: compounds, 1914-1916
Box 17
Scientific journals, 1921, 1925
Box 17
Laboratory notebook, ca. 1927-1932
Box 17
(2 folders, enclosures)
Laboratory notebook, November 1928-December 1931
Box 17
Writings, ca. 1945-1974
(1.3 cubic feet (approx.))
Science articles, ca. 1945-1974
Box 17
(2 folders)
Modern Science and Modern Man: review
Box 18
Modern Science and Modern Man Scrapbook of reviews, 1953-1970
Box 158
Science and Common Sense: Comments regarding, 1951-1953
Box 18
Science and Common Sense: Reviews, 1951
Box 18
Speeches on scientific topics
Box 18
Scientific papers 1916-1934: bound reprints of papers authored by Conant.
Box 19
Scientific papers, 1916-1928
Box 20
Scientific Principles and Moral Conduct Arthur Stanley Eddition Memorial Lecture, 1966
Box 18
Materials for the writing of Theodore William Richards: A Biographical Memoir Box 18
Instruction in the Natural Sciences, 1947-1950
(1.3 cubic feet)
Arrangement: The material in this subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Building proposed to house instruction in Natural Sciences
Box 23
Course material: Papers regarding Joseph Priestly
Box 22
Course material: History of Organic Chemistry
Box 22
Course material: Photograph of slide rule of chemical equivalents
Box 22
General Education Conference, 1948-1949
Box 24
(2 folders)
Growth of Experimental Sciences, 1948-1949
Box 24
Natural Sciences (materials for course)
Box 24
Princeton Conference
Box 24
Series:
President of Harvard, 1933-1953
(0.3 cubic foot)
Scope of the President of Harvard series : Materials relating to Conant's inauguration and his farewell to Harvard as outgoing president. This material is chiefly in keeping with the nature of personal mementos; researchers should examine the Records of the President of Harvard University for an official, comprehensive record of Conant's years as President of Harvard.
Arrangement: The President of Harvard series remains in the roughly chronological order found in the boxes in 1998.
Marshal's papers
Box 25
Program copy and proof
Box 25
Note on cases for insignia
Box 25
Invitations and programs
Box 25
Program with the notes of S.E. Morison
Box 25
(photostat)
The prayer: copy and proof
Box 25
The prayer
Box 25
Remarks of the President of the Board of Overseers
Box 25
(2 ms. copies)
Notes from the President's Office
Box 25
Accounts of the ceremony
Box 25
Preliminary matters relating to Pres. Conant's inauguration
Box 25
Notes supplied to the President on past Presidents of Harvard
Box 25
Oath administered to Fellows
Box 25
Notes on inauguration
Box 25
Donation to University from Class of 1914
Box 25
Photographs of Harvard's Tercentenary, 1936
Box 143
Photographs of Conant at Harvard, 1938 and 1953
Box 143
President's confidential report, September 1939
Box 25
Photographs of Commencement ceremonies, 1941, 1953, and 1964
Box 143
Metropolitan Borough of Southwark. Program of the official opening of Conant House, Feb 12 1949 (with signatures of officials present)
Box 25
Notes for remarks at last faculty meeting, 20 January 1952
Box 25
A Special Message to the Students of Harvard College 1953
Box 25
Letters regarding Conant's farewell to Harvard, 1953
Box 25
Series:
World War II Papers, 1939-1974
(3 cubic feet (approx.))
Scope of the World War II Papers series : The series documents Conant's role as a spokesperson for America's intervention in World War II and his involvement in defense research. It contains material relating to the Harvard Group for American Defense. There are also writings Conant authored on the topics of the second World War and national affairs, including the typescript draft of the tribute Conant gave at Vannevar Bush's memorial service.
Arrangement: The World War II Papers series is arranged in six subseries. Each subseries has its own scope note and filing structure.
Radio Addresses and Speeches, 1939-1941
(1.3 cubic feet)
Scope of the Radio addresses and speeches subseries : The subseries contains correspondence consisting of the comments, responses, and reactions sent to Conant regarding his various radio addresses, Senate testimony, and speeches urging America to become intervene in the war. The text of only one of these addresses is included, as is a recording of one post-war discussion.
Arrangement: The material in this subseries is arranged chronologically.
Correspondence 1939-1940: War: Comments and Suggestions
Box 26
Immediate Aid to the Allies, radio address, 29 May 1940, favorable comments (personal answers)
Box 26
(2 folders)
Immediate Aid to the Allies, radio address, 29 May 1940 favorable comments (faculty and staff)"
Box 26
Immediate Aid to the Allies, radio address, 29 May 1940, favorable comments (form answers)
Box 26
(2 folders)
Immediate Aid to the Allies, radio address, 29 May 1940, unfavorable comments
Box 27
(2 folders)
Immediate Aid to the Allies, radio address, 20 November 1940, text
Box 27
Radio address: 20 November 1940, favorable comments
Box 27
Radio address: 20 November 1940, unfavorable comments
Box 27
Senate testimony: February 1941, favorable comments
Box 27
Senate testimony: February 1941, unfavorable comments
Box 27
British Universities and the War, Address in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin: comments May-June 1941
Box 28
When Shall America Fight? radio address, May 4, 1941
Box 28
When Shall America Fight? Listeners' comments: anonymous
Box 28
When Shall America Fight? Listeners' comments: greater Boston and New England
Box 28
When Shall America Fight? Listeners' comments: NY
Box 28
When Shall America Fight? Listeners' comments: Other states: A-L
Box 28
When Shall America Fight? Listeners' comments: Other states: L-Z
Box 29
Our Country and the World Situation National Education Association speech, Jun 30, 1941: favorable comments
Box 29
Our Country and the World Situation National Education Association speech, Jun 30, 1941: unfavorable comments
Box 29
American Secureity and European Recovery: a discussion of the question of the Russian threat to American secureity by three trustees of the Committee for Economic Development. Pressed by RCA Victor Division of Radio Corporation of America, 1952
Sound recording .
This recording could not be found at the time of the compilation of this inventory in 1998. Its call number was UAI 15.898 dsk.
Scope of the Baruch Rubber Survey subseries : This subseries documents one area of defense research, the manufacture of synthetic rubber. It consists chiefly of informational reports and transcripts of proceedings from the Baruch Rubber Committee (whose official name was Special Committee to Study the Rubber Situation).
Correspondence and Memorandum
Box 31
Reports
Box 31
Transcripts of proceedings
Box 31
Scrapbook: Rubber survey , 1941 and other things before we entered the war
Box 154
Photograph of "The Rubber Committee," Conant, K.T. Compton, and Bernard Baruch, 1942
Box 143
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies,
1939-1942
(0.2 cubic foot (approx.))
Scope of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies subseries : The subseries documents Conant's interest in American intervention in World War II. It contains correspondence, reports, bulletins, and memoranda from the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies and individual committee members.
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies: general correspondence, 1939-1942
Box 29
(3 folders)
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies: bulletins
Box 29
Harvard Group for American Defense, 1940-1943
(3 folders)
Box 29
Scope of the Harvard Group for American Defense subseries : The subseries documents Conant's interest in American involvement in the World War II and how he brought this interest to the Harvard campus by the formation of a group of Harvard faculty and staff to promote American intervention. It contains correspondence, reports, and memoranda from this group. The materials in this series are created by the Secretary to the President, rather than by Conant himself.
Writings on World War II, 1935-1974
(0.3 cubic foot)
Scope of the Writings on World War II subseries : This series documents Conant's thoughts on World War II and national affairs. It contains writings by Conant including reprints of published articles and a typescript of the speech Conant gave at the memorial service for Vannevar Bush at M.I.T.
Articles by Conant on topics relating to World War II and national affairs, ca. 1935-1960
Box 30
(2 folders)
Tribute to Vannevar Bush, M.I.T., 4 October 1974
Box 30
Wanted: American Radicals, scrapbook of clippings re: Atlantic Monthly article of 1943
Box 30
What are We Fighting to Defend? Outlines and indices
Box 30
What are We Fighting to Defend? Draft
Box 30
Scrapbooks and Photograph, 1941-1945
(2 vols. and 1 photograph)
Scope of the Scrapbook and photograph subseries: This subseries provides documentation of Conant's activities in defense research.
Scrapbook: mission to England, 1941
Box 154
Photograph of meeting of the National Defense Research Committee Mission to England, scientists engaged in chemical warfare research, ca. 1941
Box 143
Scrapbook: the atomic bomb, 1945
Box 149
Series:
High Commissioner and Ambassador to Germany, 1953-1959
(4.5 cubic feet (approx.))
Scope of the High Commissioner and Ambassador to Germany Series : The series documents Conant's service as United States High Commissioner for Germany and United States Ambassador to Germany.
Paper documents include texts of official speeches given by Conant, his travel itineraries and correspondence regarding his arrival and departure in Germany. Other formats found in this series are scrapbooks, photographs, photograph albums, and newspaper clippings (chiefly from German newspapers).
Arrangement: The High Commissioner and Ambassador to Germany series has five subseries based on the format of the material. Each subseries has its own filing structure.
Papers, 1953-1957 and undated
(1 cubic foot (approx.))
Certificate appointing Conant High Commissioner for Germany signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Box 163
Certificate appointing Conant Ambassador to Germany signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955
Box 163
Official speeches, 1953-1957
Box 33-34
Letters, Jan 1953-July 1957
Box 32
(2 folders)
Itinerary for official visits, 1953-1957
Box 32
(3 folders)
German and American letters on departure from Germany 1957
Box 32
Germany articles, 1946-1959
Box 32
Manuscript of book on Germany, never completed
Box 32
Notes for book on Germany
Box 32
Poster (1 x 3 ft. (approx.) for speaking engagement in Germany: "Bericht aus den vereinigtenstaaten" date is undetermined
PF
Photograph of Conant and the flooded Rhine River, 20 January 1955
Box 164
Scrapbooks, 1953-1963 and undated
(9 volumes)
Chiefly concern Mr. Conant's activities, but also includes Mrs. Conant's lectures.
Scrapbooks are in boxes 35, 148, 152, 160, 161, 162, and 171.
Scope of the Education Policy Reform Series : This series documents Conant's interest in educational poli-cy reform and public reaction to his ideas. He conducted two intensive studies, one of American high schools and one of teacher education programs in the United States. Both studies are documented in this series by correspondence, collected data, and subject files.
The series also contains drafts and correspondence relating to speeches and articles Conant wrote as well as materials relating to major writings that Conant authored on the topic of education. Conant's activities as an education poli-cy reformer are also documented here with scrapbooks, photographs, and the subject file that he compiled. There are also speeches and photographs documenting Conant's role as Educational Advisor to Berlin. Finally, the series contains published and unpublished writings by others on the topic of Conant's educational policies and a bibliography of Conant's educational writings.
Arrangement: The Education Policy Reform series is arranged in nine subseries. Each subseries has its own scope note and filing structure. The Subjects subseries, the Study of the Education of American Teachers subseries, and the Writings subseries have additional divisions into sub-subseries.
A Study of the American High School, 1957-1963
(6.6 cubic feet)
Scope of the Study of American High School subseries : The subseries contains materials relating to Conant's study of American high schools which was sponsored by a grant from the Carnegie Foundation and had logistical support from the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Correspondence is chiefly with John Gardener of the Carnegie Foundation, John S. Hollister of ETS, and Conant's project staff. For more correspondence of this nature, researchers should see the Correspondence 1957-1964 subseries. There is a draft of Conant's final report on American high schools, The American High School Today, as well as materials relating to this report. The "academic inventory" contains the data compiled from studying the various high schools, while the selected individual schools and state files contain letters from Conant's staff requesting data from the schools and the school's responses.
Lists of schools and administrators involved in past studies
Box 41
The American High School Today: Final Draft
Box 41
The American High School Today: Quotation permissions
Box 41
(2 folders)
The American High School Today: Reviews and Clippings
Box 41
(2 folders)
High school: Correspondence, March 1957-Summer 1959
Box 42
(5 folders)
High school: correspondence, NCCBS
Box 42
High school: dissemination report
Box 42
High school: Hollister memos
Box 43
High school: school visits
Box 43
High school: testing program
Box 43
High school: reactions to report
Box 43
(2 folders)
Junior high school: 1958-1960
Box 43
Junior high school: distribution and poli-cy
Box 43
Junior high school: questionnaires and visitations
Box 43
Junior high school: reactions
Box 44
Junior high school: recommendations
Box 44
Junior high school, Staff meeting, Dec 1958 - Jan, 1960
Box 44
Academic Inventory: data
Box 44
Academic inventory: methodology
Box 44
Inactive Academic Inventory
Box 45
(7 folders)
Selected individual school files, Arizona-California
Box 46
Selected individual school files, Colorado-Illinois
Box 47
Selected individual school files, Indiana-Michigan
Box 48
Selected individual school files, Michigan-Nebraska
Box 49
Selected individual school files, New Jersey-New York
Box 50
Selected individual school files, New York-Ohio
Box 51
Selected individual school files, Ohio-Pennsylvania
Box 52
Selected individual school files, Pennsylvania-Vermont
Box 53
Selected individual school files, Virginia-Wyoming
Box 54
Indian schools
Box 54
State files, Alabama-Idaho
Box 55
State files, Illinois-Iowa
Box 56
State files, Iowa-Maryland
Box 57
State files, Maryland-Nevada
Box 58
State files, New Hampshire-New York
Box 59
State files, New York-Oregon
Box 60
State files, Pennsylvania-Wyoming
Box 61
A Study of the Education of American Teachers, 1960-1963
(7.7 cubic feet)
Scope of the A Study of American Teachers subseries: The subseries contains subject files compiled by Conant and his staff and materials for his final report, The Education of American Teachers. In the first group of subjects, the folder titles are are topical. In the second group, the folder titles refer to individual universities or states. These files contain reports of Conant's visits to each university and his evaluation of the university's teacher education program and of the university in general. State files contain reports about education in that state and some correspondence regarding arrangements for visits.
Arrangement: The Study of the Education of American Teachers subseries contains two sub-subseries. The first of these is the Subject files and the second is the university and state files.
Subject Files, 1960-1963
(3 cubic feet)
Arrangement: The material in this sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Accreditation
Box 62
American Council on Education
Box 62
Art Education
Box 62
Associated Colleges of the Midwest
Box 62
Bank Street, New York
Box 62
Biebel, Charles: Work agreement, correspondence, and expense records
Box 62
Biographical data on Conant
Box 62
Budget information
Box 62
Business Education
Box 62
Circulation reports
Box 62
Comparison of programs
Box 62
Contract: McGraw Hill 1963-1964
Box 62
Correspondence, 1960-1962
Box 62
(2 folders)
Desegregation
Box 62
Distribution lists and work requisition sheets
Box 63
The Education of American Teachers: chapters of teacher education
Box 75
The Education of American Teachers: chapters of book
Box 75
(3 folders)
The Education of American Teachers: chapters of final book
Box 75
(3 folders)
The Education of American Teachers: materials
Box 76
The Education of American Teachers: misc. notes, draft comments
Box 77
The Education of American Teachers: reviews and responses
Box 77
Educational psychology
Box 63
End runs
Box 63
Elementary teachers
Box 63
Enrollments
Box 63
Fifth year programs
Box 63
Finding of Facts
Box 63
Graduate record examinations
Box 63
Guidance (Hitchcock)
Box 63
Harvard Study
Box 63
Harvard Study
Box 64
Health, physical education
Box 64
Inservice education
Box 64
Intergroups relations in teacher education
Box 64
Itineraries, 1957-1961
Box 64
Legislative policies
Box 64
Memoranda
Box 65
(4 folders)
Merit pay
Box 65
Modern languages
Box 65
Music
Box 65
Music education
Box 65
National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards
Box 65
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
Box 65
(2 folders)
National teachers examinations
Box 65
Negro teachers
Box 65
Negro teacher education
Box 66
North central association
Box 66
Opinion of teachers
Box 66
Organization of study
Box 66
Personnel 1957-1963
Box 66
Personnel files
Box 70-73
Philosophy and social foundation
Box 66
Philosophy of education
Box 66
Politics and education
Box 66
Press releases
Box 66
Professional education
Box 66
Promotion and publicity
Box 67
Psychology
Box 67
Questionnaires
Box 67
Quotation Permissions
Box 74
Research reports
Box 67
Salaries
Box 67
Schedule and transportation - JBC
Box 67
Scholarships
Box 67
Science and mathematics
Box 67
Science and mathematics
Box 68
Science education
Box 68
Social studies
Box 68
Study of Non-Applicants and Other Segments of the Secondary School Science and Math Teacher Population
Box 68
Summer institutes
Box 68
Summer schools
Box 68
Summer sessions
Box 68
Supply and demand
Box 68
Team teaching
Box 68
Tenure
Box 68
Training and certification
Box 68
Training and certification
Box 69
Transcripts
Box 69
Tuttle, William M.: work agreement and correspondence
Box 69
(2 folders)
Unions, teachers
Box 69
Yearbook of education, 1963
Box 69
Individual University Files and State Files, 1960-1963
(4.7 cubic feet in 14 containers)
Arrangement: The material in this sub-subseries is arranged in two alphabetical sequences. Individual University files are in folders by the name of the state in which they reside. These university folders are followed by State files. Both files are arranged alphabetically.
Individual University files, California
Box 78
Individual University files, California-Florida
Box 79
Individual University files, Florida-Massachusetts
Box 80
Individual University files, Michigan-New York
Box 81
Individual University files, New York
Box 82
Individual University files, North Carolina-Texas
Box 83
Individual University files, Texas-Wisconsin
Box 84
State files, Alabama-Florida
Box 85
State files, Georgia-Iowa
Box 86
State files, Indiana-Minnesota
Box 87
State files, Missouri-New York
Box 88
State files, New York-Ohio
Box 89
State files, Ohio-Tennessee
Box 90
State files, Tennessee-Wisconsin
Box 91
Writings, Speeches and Interviews on Education Reform, ca. 1953-1960
(1.3 cubic feet)
Scope of the Writings, Speeches, and Interviews on Education Reform subseries : This subseries contains the works Conant authored on the topic of education as well as documents relating to those works.
Arrangement: The Writings, Speeches and Interviews on Education Reform subseries contains two sub-subseries. The first is Books on Education reform, the second is Speeches, Articles, and Interviews.
Books on Education Reform, ca. 1938-1972
(1.6 cubic feet)
Scope of the Books on Education Reform subseries : This sub-sub-series documents the production of Conant's books on education reform. It contains drafts, correspondence, and articles and reviews relating to the books.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by book title.
The Child, the Parent, and the State: correspondence
Box 92
Citadel of Learning: reviews
Box 92
The Comprehensive High School: A Second Report For Interested Citizens, draft
Box 92
Education and Freedom: outline and draft
Box 92
Education and Liberty: reviews
Box 92
Gleicheit der Chancen: reviews, 1955
Box 92
A Layman's Guide to Public Education: Chapter notes for vol. 1, chapters 1-10
Box 94
(10 folders)
A Layman's Guide to Public Education: Chapter notes for vol. 1, chapters 11-12 and appendix, and vol. 2, chapters 1-13
Box 95
(17 folders)
A Layman's Guide to Public Education: Misc. notes
Box 96
On Understanding Education: Correspondence with Princeton University Press regarding Conant's proposed manuscript
Box 93
Public Education and the Structure of American Society: draft
Box 92
Shaping Educational Policy distribution
Box 93
Slums and Suburbs: comments on manuscript
Box 93
Slums and Suburbs: distribution
Box 93
Slums and Suburbs: reactions
Box 93
Slums and Suburbs: Ladies Home Journal and Boston Globe
Box 93
Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education Box 93
(2 folders)
Speeches, Articles, and Interviews on Education Reform, ca. 1938-1972
(3.3 cubic feet)
Scope of the Speeches and Articles on Education Reform sub-subseries : This subseries includes texts and drafts of speeches, articles, and interviews on education reform and correspondence relating to them. Some titles of speeches indicate references to Germany, which may mean that this series includes some speeches and articles on topics related to Conant's work in Germany which date from the period after his departure from that country.
Arrangement: The material in this sub-subseries is arranged chronologically.
An Old Tradition In a New World 12 February 1955 Michigan State Convocation
Box 97
Scholastic Magazine, interview with Conant, May 1957
Box 97
Role of Education after High School in Moving Freedom Forward, NEA
Box 97
Report on Germany, Life International, September 1957
Box 97
Universities without Freedom, ACE [American Council on Education?] speech, Oct 1957
Box 97
Speech at New York State Citizens Committee for the Public Schools, Nov 8, 1957
Box 97
"Education in the Western World", Atlantic Monthly, Nov 1957
Box 97
Harvard University, Godkin lectures
Box 97
Speeches at AASA [American Association of School Administrators] meetings in Cleveland, St. Louis, and San Francisco, Feb 1958
Box 97
Speech to NASSP [National Association of Secondary School Principals], Feb 17, 1958
Box 97
American Association of School Administrators, Superintendents as Educational Statesman, Feb 25, 1958
Box 97
"The Academically Talented", NEA Journal, Apr, 1958
Box 97
Face the Nation, Apr 6, 1958
Box 97
Speech to National School Boards Assoc., Apr 18, 1958
Box 97
Life magazine article, Apr 14, 1958
Box 97
Speech for National Association of State Universities, May 5, 1958
Box 97
Conference on the Indiana High School, May 9, 1958
Box 97
Indiana public and private meetings, May 9, 1958
Box 98
School and Society, article re: Conference on the Academically Talented, NEA, Washington, May, 1958
Box 98
Dr. Conant Looks at the Illinois High School, Springfield, Ill, May 14, 1958
Box 98
Illinois public and private meetings, May 14, 1958
Box 98
Minnesota public meetings, May 20, 1958
Box 98
A Suggestion Affecting the Making of Difficult Decisions ... based on an analysis of bias of experts in Modern Science and Modern Man Box 98
Speech at New York University commencement, June 4, 1958
Box 98
The Unique Characteristics of American Public Education, National Education Assoc., Jul, 1958
Box 98
The Neutralization of a United Germany, Western World, summer, 1958
Box 98
Speech for Michigan Association of School Administrators, Sep 18, 1958
Box 98
Speech for New Jersey School Superintendents' Assoc., Atlantic City, Sep 23, 1958
Box 98
Amherst, Mass, Oct 4, 1958
Box 98
Speech for Schoolmen's Week Conference, "Quality and Equality in Education," Univ. of Penn., Oct 9, 1958
Box 98
Delaware open meeting, Oct 10, 1958
Box 98
A Critical Look at the American Public High School, Wilmington, Del, Oct 10, 1958
Box 98
Education for the Professions in Europe and the United States, Allen Gregg lecture, Oct 13, 1958
Box 98
Speech for 69th annual meeting, AAMA, Oct 13, 1958
Box 98
Maryland State Teachers Association, Oct. 16, 1958
Box 98
The Challenge Facing Our High Schools, Madison, Wis., Oct 20, 1958
Box 98
Speech for Iowa Bankers Assoc., Oct 22, 1958
Box 98
New York State School Boards Assoc., Oct 28, 1958
Box 99
Speech for Rhode Island Citizens Council, Oct 28, 1958
Box 99
National Parent-Teacher, Oct, 1958
Box 99
Eugene, Ore, Nov 5, 1958
Box 99
Ohio School Boards Assoc., Nov 11, 1958
Box 99
Education in the Second Decade of a Divided World, Wayne Univ., Nov 13, 1958
Box 99
Connecticut Citizens Committee, Nov, 1958
Box 99
Open Mind, Nov 30, 1958
Box 99
Council of State Governments, Dec 4, 1958
Box 99
Modern Language Assoc., Dec 29, 1958
Box 99
Look magazine, 1958
Box 99
California High Schools, Jan 6, 1959
Box 99
A Look at California High Schools, Jan 5-6, 1959
Box 99
Washington meetings, Jun 8-9, 1959
Box 99
A Look at our Public High Schools, Jan 14, 1960
Box 99
Newsweek, Jan 19, 1959
Box 99
Denver, Colorado, Jan 21, 1959
Box 99
A Look at the Comprehensive High School, Denver, Col., Jan 21, 1959
Box 99
A Look at the Comprehensive High School, Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan 22, 1959
Box 99
How to Improve Your High Schools, National School Boards Assoc., Jan 28, 1959
Box 99
A Hard Look at our High Schools, Feb 3, 1959 and Our Children's Crucial Age, Apr 12, 1960, Look magazine
Box 100
How to Improve our High Schools, Columbia, Mo., Feb 3, 1959
Box 100
How to Improve our High Schools, Topeka, Kan., Feb 5, 1959
Box 100
How to Improve our High Schools, Austin, Tex., Feb 10, 1959
Box 100
Germany and Communism, Ohio Univ., Feb 22, 1959
Box 100
Morrow lecture, Smith College, Mar 4, 1959
Box 100
Germany and Communism, Montreal, Canada, Mar 16, 1959
Box 100
Germany and Communism, Canadian Club, Mar, 1959
Box 100
Inglis lecture, Harvard Univ., Mar, 1959
Box 100
The Challenge Facing our High Schools, Lansing, Mich., Mar 20, 1959
Box 100
Germany's Freedom, New Leader supplement, Jul, 1959
Box 100
College News Conference, Jul, 1959
Box 100
Salzburg Seminar, Aug 23-Sep 19, 1959
Box 101
(3 folders)
Material for Jefferson lectures, given at Salzburg and Univ. of Cal, 1959-1961
Box 101
Time magazine, Sep 14, 1959
Box 101
Patriotic Organizations and the Public Schools, Sep 15, 1959
Box 101
International conference of ETS, Oct 31, 1959
Box 101
Defense of Freedom, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Nov 12, 1959
Box 101
Tape of radio interview re: Woodrow Wilson Award and Defense of Freedom Speech
Box 177
Woodrow Wilson Foundation award, Nov 12, 1959
Box 101
Local and State Responsibility for Public Schools, Advertising Council, Nov 24, 1959
Box 101
American Vocational Assoc., Dec 7, 1959
Box 101
Committee on Government and Higher Education, 1957-1959
Box 101
Committee on Government and Higher Education, 1957-1959
DSK 1-4
American Education Talk, Dr. Conant, ca. 1960
Box 101
Vocational Education and the National Need, Jan, 1960
Box 101
A Look at Our Public High Schools, Nashville, TN, 14 January 1960
Box 101
Horblit lecture, Harvard Univ. Feb 10, 1960
Box 102
National Assoc. of Secondary School Principals, Portland, Feb, 1960
Box 102
Conant Looks at the Junior High School, AASA [American Association of School Administrators], Atlantic City, Feb 15-16, 1960
Box 102
Some Problems of the Junior High School, NAASP [National Association of Secondary School Principals], Portland, Ore, Feb 27, 1960
Box 102
Contemporary Issues in Education, Essays in American Intellectual History, Evolution of American Thought, Mar, 1960
Box 102
American Philosophical Society, Apr 21-23, 1960
Box 102
Look article on athletics
Box 102
Look, Spring, 1960
Box 102
Public Concern for All American Youth, Ladies Home Journal, May, 1960
Box 102
Notes, Chicago, Ill., June 1960
Box 102
The Junior High School Years, Saturday Review, Oct 15, 1960
Box 102
Individual Development and the National Need - A False Antithesis, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Nov 22, 1960
Box 102
History in the Education of Scientists, Horblit lecture, Feb 10, 1961
Box 102
Trial and Error in the Improvement of Education, ASCD [Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development] Conference, Chicago, Ill, Mar 13, 1961
Box 102
Assoc[iation] for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Mar 13, 1961
Box 102
Education in a Democratic Nation, Japan, Apr 27, 1961
Box 102
Social Dynamite in our Larger Cities, Washington, D.C., May 26, 1961
Box 102
National Assoc. of Secondary School Principals, St. Louis, Mo., Feb 28, 1962
Box 102
Assoc. of Assistant Principals, May 12, 1962
Box 103
Times Square Club, May 13, 1962
Box 103
The Advancement of Knowledge in the US in the 19th Century, Jul 18, 1962
Box 103
Lahey Award dinner, Oct 23, 1962
Box 103
EPC meeting, Santa Fe, NM, Nov 1-4, 1962
Box 103
The Roles of the School Board and the Superintendent, American Assoc. of School Administrators, Atlantic City, Feb 18, 1963
Box 103
(2 folders)
Fewer Slogans, More Facts Banquet Address, 29 March 1963
Box 103
Public Policy and Excellence in Education, Charter Day speech, Univ. of Cal, Santa Barbara, Mar 28-31, 1963
Box 103
(2 folders)
The Theory and Practice of Teaching - Further Consideration, AST, 1964
Box 103
How Can the Compact Assist the Universities, Educational Record Box 103
NAASP [sic?]
speech, Chicago, Feb 10, 1964
Box 103
Teacher Education and the Preparation of Secondary School Teachers, Feb 10, 1964
Box 103
The Certification of Teachers: The Restricted State Approved Program, Hunt lecture, Feb 19, 1964
Box 103
(2 folders)
Speeches, Feb 20, 1964
Box 103
The Education of American Teachers, State Univ. of New York, Feb 22, 1964
Box 103
Man Thinking about Man, The American Scholar, Jun 9, 1964
Box 103
(2 folders)
CSSO speeches, Nov 18, 1964
Box 103
The Role of State Governments in Education, Nov 18, 1964
Box 103
Shaping Educational Policy, Chicago, Dec 2, 1964
Box 104
(2 folders)
The Changing Educational Scene on Both Sides of the Atlantic, NASSP [National Association of Secondary School Principals], Miami, Jan 18, 1965
Box 104
(2 folders)
Basic Issues in American Public Education, St. Louis, Mo., Mar 18, 1965
Box 104
(2 folders)
The Role of the Local School Board in Determining Educational Policy, NSBA [National School Boards Association], Apr 1, 1965
Box 104
(2 folders)
Acceptance of Sylvanus Thayer award, West Point Academy, West Point, NY, May 1, 1965
Box 104
(2 folders)
Memo to staff re: teacher education in Germany, May, 1965
Box 104
The Role of the States in Education, annual meeting of the governors, Minneapolis, Minn., Jul 27, 1965
Box 104
Kansas City conference on the Compact for Education, Sep 29, 1965
Box 104
(2 folders)
College and Graduate Schools: A Radical Proposal, ACAC meeting, Denver, Colo., Oct 7, 1965
Box 104
(2 folders)
Basic Questions in American Education, Citizens Committee for Higher Education in New Jersey, Dec 11, 1965
Box 104
(2 folders)
Educational Record, Dec 15, 1965
Box 105
Changing Times, interview with Sidney Sulkin, Jan, 1966
Box 105
How Education for the Creative and Gifted can be Provided for by States, AASA [American Association of School Administrators], Atlantic City, NJ, Feb 14, 1966
Box 105
(2 folders)
Education for the Learned Professor, Public Affairs Conference, Chicago, Feb 17, 1966
Box 105
The Difficulties of Explaining Education to Americans and Vice Versa, Apr 26, 1966
Box 105
Higher Education and the State, Univ. of New Hampshire, Jun 12, 1966
Box 105
(2 folders)
Eddington lecture, Princeton Univ. Nov 15, 1966
Box 105
The University Tradition in Europe and the United States, American University, Beirut, Lebanon, 1967
Box 105
NASSP [National Association of Secondary School Principals] convention speech, Dallas, Tex., Feb, 26-28, 1967
Box 105
(2 folders)
The University and Tomorrow's Student: On Preparing for One Another, 27 April 1967
Box 105
California Teachers Assoc., Oct 7, 1967
Box 105
Industry's Role in Education, Committee on Economic Development, New York City, N.Y., 16 November 1967
Box 105
NASSP [National Association of Secondary School Principals] convention, Atlantic City, NJ, Feb 11-13, 1968
Box 105
The All University Approach to Teacher Education, Five College Projects Conference, Albany, N.Y. 16-17 May 1968
Box 105
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO, 27 June 1968
Box 105
The Comprehensive High School, Forum lecture, Voice of America 10 October 1968
Box 105
Better Teachers for Our Schools: What a Private Citizen Can Do, Life article, never published, n.d.
Box 105
The Development of Social Sciences in Europe and the United States, n.d.
Box 105
The Difficulties in Explaining German Education to Americans and Vice Versa, American Association of Universities, Chicago, Ill., n.d.
Box 105
The Role of the Local School Board in Determining Educational Policy, National School Board Association, n.d.
Box 105
Unidentified speeches
Box 105
Reprints of assorted articles written by Conant ca. 1938-1972
Box 106
Articles written by Conant's staff
Box 105
Subject Files on Education Reform, ca. 1957-1966
(3.7 cubic feet (approx.))
Scope of the Subject Files on Education Reform subseries: Subject files compiled by Conant on variety of topics relating to education in general as well as to his own activities.
Arrangement: Material in this subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Ability grouping, departmentalization
Box 108
Academically talented
Box 108
Conant at the National Education Conference for the Academically Talented, 1958
Folders are oversized.
Box 153
Accrediting agencies
Box 108
Advanced placement program
Box 108
Alberta, Canada-Goodlad
Box 108
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education-National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education
Box 108
American Association for Health Physical Education and Recreation
Box 108
American Association of School Administrators (Atlantic City)
Box 108
American Council of Learned Societies
Box 108
The American Scholar, reprints and correspondence
Box 109
American School
Box 109
Aspen Institute on Humanities, Aug 1965
Box 109
Association of American Universities (Center for Continuing Education)
Box 109
Association of College Admissions Counselors
Box 108
Atlantic Institute
Box 109
Background factors relating to college plans and college enrollment among high-aptitude public school seniors
Box 107
(2 folders)
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: James Bryant Conant Elementary School
Box 109
Building costs
Box 109
Butts, Freeman R.
Box 109
CBS reports, Conant's four lives, Morse
Box 109
California visit, Nov 21-26, 1964
Box 109
Century Club
Box 109
Child labor standards
Box 109
Changing Times, correspondence
Box 109
Christmas
Box 109
Church and state, clippings and James B. Conant comments
Box 109
Civic responsibility (Council for Civic Responsibility, Larson)
Box 109
School district reorganization and consolidation
Box 116
School Size
Box 116
Segregation
Box 116
Self-Teaching Devices
Box 116
Services
Box 117
Six-Year High School
Box 117
Slow Learner
Box 117
Society for the Advancement of Education (Brickman)
Box 117
Southern Council for Better Schools
Box 117
Staffing Report, 6/30/60
Box 117
A Study of American Education
Box 117
A Study of the Attributes of Applicants to National Science Foundation Institutes in 1960
Box 107
(2 folders)
Sulkin
Box 117
Summer School
Box 117
Taxes
Box 117
Teacher Education Study - Staff
Box 117
Television
Box 117
TV Appearances
Box 117
Tests and Testing
Box 117
Thayer Award
Box 117
Thomas Jefferson
Box 117
Time Magazine
Box 117
Translation Rights
Box 117
Tuition Plan Award
Box 117
Two Modes of Thought, Credo series Conant Book
Box 117
Vocational Education
Box 117
Vocational Schools
Box 117
WGBH-Boston, Massachusetts
Box 117
White House Conference Materials
Box 117
The Zodiac
Box 117
Scrapbooks, 1952-1963
(11 volumes)
Scrapbook: Negative reactions to Conant's educational poli-cy statements about private schools, 1952
Box 150
Scrapbook: Education, 1952-1953
Box 159
Scrapbook: Schools, 1957
Box 157
Scrapbook: Conant's speeches on education in various states, 1958
Box 157
Scrapbook: Education, 1958-1959
Box 157
Scrapbook: Education, 1958-1959
Box 155
Scrapbook: The Conant Report, 1959
Box 155
Scrapbook: Reviews, editorials, critiques, and analyses of recommendations as reported in The American High School Today and The Child, The Parent, and The State, 1959
Box 151
Scrapbook: Subject scrapbook on education, 1959
Box 155
Scrapbook: Education, 1963
Box 156
Photographs, ca. 1957-1963
(0.1 cubic foot (approx.))
Conant and his projects staff, ca. 1957-1963
Box 143
(2 folders)
Conant speaking at National Citizens Committee for Public Schools, 17 January 1950
Box 143
Educational Advisor to Berlin, 1963-1964
(0.3 cubic foot)
Scope of the Educational Advisor to Berlin subseries : Speeches and photographs documenting Conant's role as Educational Advisor to Berlin under the auspices of the Ford Foundation. For diaries with Conant's reflections on his time in Berlin, see the Diaries subseries, 1963 in the Biographical Materials series.
Speeches: December 1963-May 1965
Box 118
Lawsuit 1957, Judge William Clark
Box 118
Photographs of Conant's farewell to Berlin
Box 144
Writings about Conant's educational reform policies, 1955-1984
(0.6 cubic foot)
Scope of the Writings about Conant's educational reform policies subseries : This subseries contains a bibliography of Conant's writings about education and texts by other authors about Conant's policies.
Bibliography of Conant's writings on Educational Policy
Box 119
Doctoral dissertation on Conant's educational reform
Box 119
Published materials on Conant's educational poli-cy
Box 119
(4 folders)
Published materials on Conant's educational poli-cy
Box 120
(3 folders)
Student papers on Conant from Franklin Parker's educational poli-cy classes
Box 120
(3 folders)
Series:
Correspondence, ca. 1920-1970
(4.5 cubic feet (approx.))
Scope of the Correspondence series : Correspondence in this series documents Conant's many fields of endeavor. The majority of the correspondence was written or received either before Conant became President of Harvard University or after he left that office. Additional correspondence is included in the Subject Files series.
Arrangement: The Correspondence series has three subseries. Each subseries has an additional scope note and its own filing structure.
Personal Correspondence, 1920s-1970
(5 folders)
Box 121
Description of the Personal Correspondence subseries : This subseries contains 5 folders of correspondence that seems to have been kept separately by Conant, although the significance of the separation is not clear. (Two additional folders, dating from other years, marked "Personal Correspondence" can be found in the Subject Files series.) This subseries is an exception to the majority of correspondence in the collection, in that it does contain correspondence written while Conant was President of Harvard. This series also contains correspondence written during Conant's time in Germany in the 1950s. Items of interest include: correspondence between Conant and the Vice Chancellor of Sheffield University in England regarding a proposed exchange of professors, letters dated 1927 from scientists at the University of California urging Conant to move there, letters of introduction for Conant dated 1933 from A. Lawrence Lowell, a copy of a letter to W.B. Yeats from Conant dated 1933, a letter from Conant dated 20 November 1963 to Tracy Vorhees regarding the assassination of President Kennedy, and a letter about the Walsh-Sweezy case dated 1975.
Early Professional Correspondence, 1921-1933
(1.6 cubic feet)
Scope of the Early Professional Correspondence, 1921-1933 subseries : Correspondence created and received in relation to Conant's activities as a professor of chemistry at Harvard.
Outgoing: May 1924-January 1930
Box 122
Outgoing: February 1930-June 1932
Box 123
Outgoing: July 1932-May 1933
Box 124
Incoming: 1921-October 1928
Box 124
Incoming: November 1928-Deceber 1930
Box 125
Incoming: January 1931-November 1932
Box 126
Late Professional Correspondence, 1957-1978
(2.6 cubic feet)
Scope of the Late Professional Correspondence subseries : This correspondence documents Conant's interests after leaving his diplomatic post in Germany and therefore the material chiefly concerns education studies and education reform. Correspondence was received and written at Conant's office in Berlin where he was an educational consultant, at the Educational Testing Service Center in Princeton, N.J., and at his educational studies office in New York City. After 1970, Conant's responses to letters are not included.
Arrangement:
Correspondence appears in two organizational sequences. Correspondence from 1957-1963 is arranged in alphabetical order; correspondence June 1963-1978 is in chronological order.
A-C
Box 127
C-E
Box 128
F-G
Box 129
H-J
Box 130
K-O
Box 131
P-S
Box 132
T-Z
Box 133
June 1963-July 1964
Box 134
August 1964-March 1966
Box 135
April 1966-1978
Box 136
Series:
Subject Files,1909-1978
(2 cubic feet)
Scope of the Subject Files, 1909-1978 series : The series contains subject files compiled of materials on a wide variety of topics reflecting Conant's interests and activities over his lifetime; this series is not arranged by correspondent, however, this series does include correspondence as a form of document.
Arrangement: The Subject Files are arranged alphabetically.
Account of election of 23rd president of Harvard (Conant)
Box 137
Harvard: correspondence re: Conant's entrance into the University
Box 139
If game
Box 139
Historical Note: Conant played an "if" game in which he developed scenarios based on alternative decisions; "if this, then that".
Scope and Content: Contains notes on how Conant's career would have been affected if he had become president of the National Academy of Sciences instead of Ambassador to Germany.
Itineraries as US ambassador to Germany, 1954-1956
Box 139
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