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Conant added new graduate degrees in education, history of science and public policy, and he introduced the Nieman Fellowship for journalists to study at Harvard.

He supported the " meatballs ", as lower class students were called.

He instituted the Harvard national Scholarships for underprivileged students.

Dudley House was opened as a place where non-resident students could stay.

Conant asked two of his assistant deans, Henry Chauncey and William Bender, to determine whether the Scholastic Aptitude Test was a good measure of academic potential.

When they reported that it was, Conant adopted it.

He waged a ten-year campaign for the consolidation of testing services, which resulted in the creation of the Educational Testing Service in 1946, with Chauncey as its director.

Theodore H. White noted that " Conant was the first president to recognize that meatballs were Harvard men too.