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"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."    ~  James Bryant Conant ~

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James Bryant Conant, the American chemist and educator, is known both for his role in the Manhattan Project — which developed the first nuclear weapons — and for his innovative tenure as president of Harvard University. Harvard had been a finishing school for the rich; Conant turned it into a world-class research university and created aptitude tests to choose students by ability. These tests became the basis for SAT. He was born in Massachusetts in 1893 & died in New Hampshire in 1978.