Word: fording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing dream of the average American is to send his children to college. What about the hard reality? Last week, after a nationwide survey for the Ford Foundation, Pollster Elmo Roper summed up the aspirations and posed some nagging financial questions. Items...
...quite a different approach is that of David Reisman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, and his associates. They tend to see the Program as an opportunity for true "experiments"--for trying something without precedent in previous Harvard experience. Their plans diverge from those of other workshop-leaders in several important particulars. In the first place, the Riesman group is resolved to draw students of varying interests and aptitudes. Their hope is to bring together (in six workshops, with a total capacity of 48 people) "the physicist and the economist, the astronomer and the humanist, the historian...
Agreement comes from David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences: "It is less fashionable to be cynical about religion," he said. "There is fun poked at the return to religion, but this is part escapism. Students are more open, less in the spirit of Mencken...
...especially grateful to David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, who gave valuable advice on the random-sample poll and to the local religious leaders and faculty members who discussed with us the issues involved...
With the exception of the workshops headed by David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, no seminar has made final selection of any applicants. That task is now in the hands of each workshop leader, who will interview the most likely candidates during Registration Week...