Word: hermstein
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...letter supporting the Fainsod report was signed by three professors- Robert L. Wolff 36, Coolidge Professor of History and chairman of the conservative caucus; Arthur A. Maass, professor of Government; and Richard J. Hermstein, professor of Psychology. All three are members of the conservative caucus's steering committee...
...letter was sent to the 150 signers of the earlier letter, according to Hermstein, "because we felt there was some connection between the attitudes expressed in the two documents. Both deal with one view of what a University is about, and particularly what a Faculty of Arts and Sciences is about." That view sees the University and Faculty as officially non-political...
Wolff, Maass, and Hermstein mailed their letter to about 250 Faculty members on October 23- five days before the special meeting. Only 250 copies of the letter were sent, Wolff said. "because we thought we'd start with the constituents who had agreed with us before...
Four of the six members of the conservative caucus's steering committee-Wolff, Maass, Hermstein, and Peter B. Doeringer, '62, assistant professor of Economics-met on October 23 to decide on the text of the letter. Doeringer left the meeting early because of another commitment and therefore did not sign the letter...
According to Hermstein, the letter "was directed at trying to hold back somewhat against the tide of increasing politicization" of the Faculty. Wolff said that "we were not laying down the line...