Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THEME OF this year's crop of heroes is the promise which America's youth holds for the future. Reagan praises Richard Cavoli, a young science and medical expert, Tyrone Ford, an accomplished 12-year-old muscian, Shelly Butler, an honors student who saved a girl from being run over by a bus, and Trevor Farrell, a 13-year-old who aids Philadelphia's homeless...
...Ford Professor of Social Science emeritus David Riesman '31 calls academic departments: "Efforts to draw lines which are unrealistic, and only in the mind." But the professor is quick to point out that those imaginary lines are also the very real parameters which shape intellectual disciplines...
...Ford Professor of Social Science David Riesman'31 also sees the name change as a recognition ofHarvard's altered emphases. "What they're nowsaying to the world is that what we now are is astraight psychology department. The name changewould say to an outsider, `We don't want to dealwith the dreams, the murky, the unclear anymore,"'explains Riesman, whose book "The Lonely Crowd" isa social science classic and who is noted for hisstudies of higher education...
...situation as small as this poses all the problems about the nature of a community, I have invited those in the class to come on Friday, at 10 a.m., to William James 1 to discuss the situation. I trust that Ms. Gomez will come as well. Daniel Bell Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences
HARVARD SOCIOLOGIST Daniel Bell tells of trying to drum up funding for a 50-person commission to predict how society would change by the year 2000. He appealed to and eventually received financial support from the Ford Foundation in 1964, but not before undergoing some questioning...