Word: eriksons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon, Professor Erik H. Erikson told the graduates that the identity crises of college students were over-emphasized. Teachers, Erikson added, should nonetheless be aware of the hyper-self-consciousness of the young adult student, and should take this into consideration...
While Ec. 1, Fine Arts 13 and German 75 drain off most of the morning throng, E.H. Erikson explores and interprets the human life cycle (Soc. Sci. 139), a subject on which he is a world authority. Nearly all of the writings of Chaucer are arrayed as food for thought in lunchtime English 115, and similarly important Greek literature is studied in Greek 112. Applied Math. 206, "Applied Discrete Mathematics," is a course for which "no specific preparation is suggested, but it is important that the student have a good mathematical background"; clearly, without such a background, he might...
...other fields, especially since one can take courses in which an honors grade may be had almost without effort. In fact, however, the freshman seminar program, which exposes many students to behavioral science for the first time, and extremely popular General Education courses taught by David Riesman and Erik Erikson have been the greatest factors in drawing freshmen and sophomores to So cial Relations. These courses were not planned as recruiting ventures, but they have had that effect...
...form a coherent theory of behavioral science." Of Soc Rel's many problems the most immediate is administrative. The department is as large as some small colleges and demands an elaborate governing organization. But of its huge staff (114), few devote their full energies to the department. Some, like Erikson and Riesman, are involved in the General Education program. Others, like Jerome S. Bruner, who has his Center for Cognitive Studies, give most of their efforts to outside projects. Still others, like Alex Inkeles and Laurence Wylie hold secondary appointments that consume much of their time. This leaves few persons...
Looking inwards, it should seize upon Raphael Demos, retiring Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity; Erik H. Erikson, professor of Human Development; and Perry G. E. Miller, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature. All three have vastly increased Harvard's reputation, a service for which Harvard is ordinarily grateful...