Meeting of Dr. Conant and Dr. Vannevar Bush in Harvard University regarding development of atom bomb during World War II. Entrance to Harvard University. Statue of John Harvard. Office of Dr. James Conant shows Dr. Conant talking with Dr. Vannevar Bush. Bush says he has talked with President Franklin Roosevelt about development of atomic bomb and that he has given permission to go ahead. Conant then says a real all out effort should be made with expansion, reorganization and to really get going.
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Longfellow Bridge crossing over the Charles River. Boat moves on water. Harvard College buildings.
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entrance gates of Harvard University. University Hall as seen from gates. Students walk around as they move from one class to another. Ivy League students wearing preppy fashions. Students walk out of Harry Elkins Widener Library. Students sit on the steps of Harry Elkins Widener Library (1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States). Front facade of Emerson Lecture Hall. Students in the library.
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethology. Students walk out of the museum. Student sit and talk on steps of a building. Sign reads 'Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethology'. Interiors of the museum shows students and visitors looking at exhibit of Native American Indians and totem poles.
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Students study at Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethology. Student writes in a notebook. Picture of chimpanzee in a book. Student selects volume of Hooten's 'Twilight of Man' from bookshelf.
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Anthropologist Dr. Earnest Hooton in a laboratory measures the skull of a girl student. Other students look on.