Oral history interview with James Bryant Conant, 1967.

Biographical Note

President, Harvard University; Trustee, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; United States Ambassador to West Germany, 1955-1957.

Scope and Contents

Early impressions of Carnegie Corporation while president at Harvard University, 1933-1934; election to board of Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1935; early development of Educational Testing Service (ETS), serving on National Research Council Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, 1938-1939; appointment to National Defense Research Committee, 1940; ETS Committee on Testing; debate regarding Harvard pensions, 1945-47; travels to Australia; Russian Research Center; 1947-1949; establishment of College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF), 1952; leaving Carnegie to serve as United States High Commissioner for Germany, 1953; return to United States; Carnegie Corporation grants for study of education; THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL TODAY, 1957-1967. Impressions of Frederick P. Keppel, Walter A. Jessup, Irwin Stewart, George Biebel.

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
• College Retirement Equities Fund.
• College presidents--Interviews.
• Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978--Interviews.
• Diplomats--United States--Interviews.
• Educational Testing Service.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Harvard University.
• Interviews.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Universities and colleges--Entrance examinations.