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Despite the steady increase of Negro students at the nation's major universities, the U.S. still has more than 120 colleges that have a predominantly Negro student population. How good are they? In the current issue of the Harvard Educational Review, Sociologist David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, a contributing...
Strictly speaking, only four of the eight articles deal with technical matters, and only two of these require any sort of scientific background on the part of the reader. The other two, "Memories, Molecules, and Minds," by James V. McConncll, professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, and "Machines...
Jencks seeks to refute those who reflexively debunk the ability of computers to do more than chemical data processing. "Electronic intelligence," he says, "is still mostly promise rather than performance, but it has already begun to reflect something of the workings of the mind." He looks forward to a generation...
In his talk, which opened the forum, and in the discussion period that followed, Mr. Goodman proved himself an ideal rallying point for antiauthoritarian sentiment. Gently chiding Blaine and Steve Jencks in his thick Bronx accent, making intimate asides to his wildly partisan audience, and speaking with alarming frankness of...
Paul Goodman, author of Growing Up Absurd and other books, Dr. Graham B. Blaine, Jr. '40, assistant in Psychiatry, and Stephen F. Jencks '62 will discuss "Sex and the College Community" tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Burr B.