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The Sociology Department has recommended tenure for Christopher S. Jencks '58, lecturer in Sociology whose recent book, Inequality, challenges traditional notions of education and mobility.
To Kagan, the implications for U.S. schools are obvious: they give up too early on slow starters in reading, writing and arithmetic-particularly those in slums. In contrast to critics like Harvard Sociologist Christopher Jencks, who argues that heredity and home environment determine how well children do in school, Kagan...
Congratulating Harvard School of Public Health Dr. Robert P. Gever on his discovery of a totally synthetic blood substitute for rats, President Bok admits that he is not surprised. "I'm totally synthetic myself," Bok adds. In an elaboration of his report on the unimportance of integration in education, Christopher...
"The Lord is my shepherd," Christopher Jencks tells Freshmen gathered in Sanders Theatre, "I shall not want." Asked about his strategy this year, Coach Joe Restic, radical theoretician of Soldiers Field, explains his theory that "not only is the best defense a good offense, but the best offense is a...
In an article on the Op-ed Page of The New York Times, David Landau '72 defends Dr. Kissinger's "tardiness" in ending the war. "Although Kissinger has a big brain," Landas writes, "he is semi-human like the rest of us." In a citywide ecology dragnet Cambridge police arrest...