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Currently more than 70 percent of Harvard students graduate with honors said council member Richard J. Hernstein, Pierce Professor of Psychology...
...next year's course catalogue Wilson is listed as offering four courses. In the fall. Government 1500, "Bureaucracy," and Government 2305, "American Government and Politics," with Morris P. Fiorina, professor of Government. In the spring: Social Analysis 12, "Crime and Human Nature," with Pierce Professor of Psychology R. J. Hernstein and Government 30, "Introduction to American Government," also with Fiorin
...short, the intelligence which Hernstein views as basically innate and "irreplaceable" depends much more on opportunity and encouragement, i.e. on environment, than he even wants to consider. Because it does, society can function better and husband its mental resources more effectively by providing such opportunity and encouragement to all its various groups and classes, not just to a vain elite which credits its biological inheritance for qualities due chiefly to outside influences...
Katherine J. Moos '75, an SDS representative, said Wednesday, "no one on this campus, including Hernstein, is qualified to debate the scholarly points" raised in Herrnstein's book...
...Hernstein bases his prediction largely on the basis of the high heritability of I.Q. He cites intelligence tests which measured the I.Q.'s of identical twins who were brought up in different homes. The data he cites is drawn from a study in the Harvard Educational Review, by Berkeley geneticist Arthur Jensen who compiled statistics and conclusions from four different studies done...