Conant Not 'Unknown' To Roxbury Trustees Answers Roger Ernst

Charges that retired President James B. Conant had been overlooked as a possible headmaster for Roxbury Latin School when the job was vacant in 1933 were denied yesterday by the President of the Board of Trustees of that school.

In a letter to the Christian Science Monitor, Roger Erust '03 answered an accusation by Senator Charles Tobey (R.N.H.) that the Roxbury Latin Trustees considered Conant an "unknown".

"The real reason that Mr. Conant was not considered seriously as a candidate for headmaster," writes Erust, "was just the opposite of the one Senator Tobey gives namely, that he had already attained such eminence as a professor of Chemistry and chairman of Chemistry at Harvard as to make it certain that he would not consider an offer to become headmaster of a comparatively small boy's school."