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Harvard Historian Frank Freidel, 60, who wrote one of the working papers prepared to stimulate discussion, suggested stamina and youth as helpful qualities. "Younger leaders are readier to venture in the dark. They haven't had their teeth knocked out as yet, and they are ready to take chances." Washington Lawyer Lewis Engman, 40, head of the Federal Trade Commission under Nixon, agreed: "One constant is the willingness to take risks, to row the boat out beyond the shore without the assurance that you will be able to get back...
...Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, says without hesitation that students who take his course on the New Deal have become more and more conservative since 1972. When he first started teaching the course, he says, radicals declaring themselves socialists denounced the New Deal as a pallative Roosevelt offered the working class. Now, he says, he finds students more willing to consider the intricacies of New Deal decisions, willing to work within the old frame of government and economics. They don't seem to be working only for grades, he says--but he adds, rather wrily, that "History...
...difference is clear in this year's topics. The Harvard alumni college offered a session called "Four American Centuries," with Professors Donald H. Fleming, Bernard Ballyn, Frank B. Freidel, Oscar Handlin. Stephan A. Thernstrom, and Stephen W. Botein '63--Dele Simmonds '52, a Radcliffe alumna who attended the session, says the saw three of their names mentioned in the New York Times during the week before she came. The second session was "devoted to a provocative look at controversial issues in the area of science and medicine," the brochure says, with Professors Everett I. Mendelsohn, Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, and lectures...
Other Faculty members that signed the statement were professors Frank Freidel and Franklin Ford of the History Department and Radcliffe President Horner. The majority of the Statement's signers are faculty members of European universities...
...Frank B. Freidel, professor of History, said that he was "shocked that the vice president was willing to plead guilty to the crimes...