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...contributors include Paul H. Buck, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor; Franklin L. Ford, Dean of the Faculty; David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Gerald Helton, professor of Physics; George Wald, professor of Biology; and Oscar Handlin, professor of History. They discuss exhaustively every aspect of the examination system...
Academic commentators have traditionally concentrated on the legal governmental structure of cities and have avoided city politics as if it were somehow too sordid to warrant scholarly attention. Recently, a few scholars such as Oscar Handlin, Wallace Sayre, and Herbert Kaufman have tried to demonstrate the importance of politics in urban life, but none has done it on as large a scale or with as much skill as Banfield and Wilson...
Negroes are becoming increasingly militant, Handlin suggested, because "the taste of a bit of equality does not appease the underprivileged; it makes them hungry for more...
...years since World War II, Handlin said that the American Negro has made more progress towards equality than he achieved during the 80 years between World War II and the Emancipation Proclamation...
...mass of Americans still reject both extremes--black and white," Handlin said. "They know that the only tolerable future for the United States, on which all Western civilization depends, is a free republic. And, in their hearts, they realize that freedom can only be associated with equality. They would like to see a gradual movement in that direction...