Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.” ~ James Bryant Conant (1893-1978), President of Harvard University (1933-53), chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, advisor to both the National Science Foundation and the Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. High Commissioner and United States Ambassador to Germany from 1953 to 1957Source: Education in a Divided World, 1948