Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times articles stated that Bell was attracted to Harvard by other scholars in Sociology like Seymour M. Lipset and Alex Inkeles. It added that last year's Columbia uprising was not an important factor in Bell's decision to come to Harvard...
Daniel Bell, a Columbia professor of Sociology, told the CRIMSON yesterday that he is considering teaching at Harvard, but denied that he has already accepted a post here, as reported in last Thursday's New York Times...
Bell, who was chairman of Columbia's Sociology department from 1959 to 1968, said that "Harvard allows for a freer movement back and forth between graduates and undergraduates...
...wind blowing through the palm trees." Other Pacific investigators have produced evidence that runs counter to her assessments of tribal personality. Most of all, anthropologists stand aghast at the way her powerful mind sometimes links fact and implication with little more than pure faith. One of her sternest critics, Columbia Anthropologist Marvin Harris, says dryly: "The courage of one's convictions is a blessing with which Mead has been liberally endowed." She permits few ripostes. When attacking the wrongheadedness of a fellow scholar, says a cowed friend, "she is truly like one of those terrible Indian goddesses, standing...
...best answer seems to be that the Columbia administration was unusually arbitrary in its decision-making, excluding faculty and students from its deliberations almost entirely. Kirk, comments Ted Kheel, the labor arbitrator, was a "typical weak manager afraid to confront his board of directors." Policy-making was a matter between Kirk and the trustees. It was not unnatural for him to withhold from release a student-faculty advisory policy on indoor demonstrations. Kirk substituted him won rule--a blanket ban on indoor picketing and demonstrations, whose enforcement against five SDS leaders in the IDA demonstration was the grievance...