Tag: James Bryant Conant

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘The choicest of their kind’

    A look back at Harvard’s role in World War I, from the men and women who entered as volunteers after the first shot was fired to the thousands of graduates and students who joined the fighting in the American phase of the conflict.

  • Campus & Community

    In 1914, poised for war

    The Harvard and Radcliffe Classes of 1914 were the University’s final ones before world war. Their brilliant students became players on a stage of vanishing national innocence.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard goes to war

    Harvard University’s expansive role in World War II, from research to recruits, helped the Allies to triumph.

  • Campus & Community

    A gala for Dudley at 20

    Dudley House, thriving and lively at age 20, is the “Mother House” model for Ivy League grad school centers.

  • Arts & Culture

    Memories of Armageddon

    With haunting images, Japanese artist and survivor Junko Kayashige depicts the horrors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an exhibition of oil paintings on view at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Monroe C. Gutman Library.