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Although the Department has not formally offered Jencks a professorship, Franklin L. Ford, acting dean of the Faculty, said an ad hoc committee has been set up to review Jenck's qualifications...
...Jenck's book, Inequality, published in June 1972, concludes that if American schools could be reformed to insure an equal education for every individual, opportunities for wealth and occupations would still be unequal...
Actually, most of Riesman and Jenck's arguments in defense of the system can be reversed and used in criticism of it. For example, the very process that throws a sophomore among new acquaintances also cuts him off from all but the closest of his freshman year friends...
...Levin's "sin?" It is living in a world of words which is "neither dangerous nor implacable;" living in a world in which "nobody suffers more than the loss of a promotion;" living in a world in which "only truth is moral." So, it would seem, Mr. Jenck's desideratum is a dangerous world, a world of considerable suffering, a world in which, apparently, falsehood is moral--in short, the "workaday world...
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