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Ford Professor of Social Science Emeritus David Riesman '31 concurs that the long shadow of the Reagan presidency has fostered a sense of "futility," especially on the issue of nuclear weapons. He notes that while the issue has sparked intense interest around the country, it has attracted little political action here--a sharp contrast with the late 50s and early 60s when Riesman and some colleagues drew hundreds of students to fight for the test...
William G. Perry Jr., professor of education emeritus, wrote a very clever essay defining types of examsmanship. A student who has just received an "A" on an exam objects. "But sir, I really don't deserve it, it was mostly bull, really." To this kind of remark, there is only one possible rejoinder. Alfred North Whitehead's: "Yes sir, what you wrote is utter nonsense, utter nonsense! But ah! Sir! It's the right kind of nonsense...
...Harvard was a beacon to other universities," said David Riesman '31. Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, in an interview last week. "There may have been some smudges on the escutcheon, but it was a handsome escutcheon nonetheless...
...peace movement, but a moderate in the sense that he rejected the revolutionary calls of the new left and the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out ideology of the counterculture. "What was the administration to do with professors who incited violence? What to do with [Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus] George Wald out there orating in the Yard...
...sherries students to keep anyone satisfied sounds tantalizingly attractive. But gathered together recently with Symposium on Higher Education at the Education School, though, four once and future college presidents expressed more than mixed feelings. Moderated by the presiding dean of of American sociology. Ford Professor of Social Sciences emeritus David Riesman M. ex-officials addressed the question "How Much Authority Does a College President Really Have?" Like most questions punctuated with reality, the question begs answers that will debunk certain myths--or denials so complete they invited suspicion where none existed before...