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...question is asked in the Phi Beta Kappa magazine American Scholar by Kenneth Keniston. a Rhodes scholar and Harvard junior fellow, whose brilliant reconnoitering of psychology, philosophy and political science at Harvard led him to focus on youth ''alienation." Now a professor of psychology at Yale Medical School. Keniston as a result has become a top scholar of the oddly American dilemmas of growing...
...Worth Rebuffing. What helped make young Americans apolitical in the first place, says Keniston. was the absence of a feudal aristocracy to resent and smash. During the rapid industrialization after the Civil War, for instance, the young could easily see themselves rising from rags to riches in a world that rewarded hard work, not rebellion. Now the "image of youth as an apprenticeship for upward mobility is waning," to be replaced by a self-centered style of behavior that Keniston calls "youth culture." It has many forms-the beatnik, the delinquent, the suburban adolescent-but all have in common...
Fear of Being Taken In. To Keniston. who feels that "true politics" should indeed concern collegians, a key deterrent is campus politics. By dealing only with trivia, he says, student government subtly argues that only "omnicompetent officials" have the wisdom to make real policy decisions. Even more subtle is an echo from the McCarthy era-not fear of speaking out. but fear of being taken in. Given the abiding American fear of being a sucker, says Keniston. McCarthy's allusions to "unwitting dupes" still make collegians wary of offbeat ideas...
Riesman will act as a kind of overall supervisor for his part of the Freshman Program. The six individual workshops under his charge will, in their day-to-day activities, be directed by Mrs. Dorothy Lee, Roger Hagan, Kenneth Keniston, Edward L. Pattullo, and Mrs. Susanne Rudolph. Mrs. Lee has outlined one likely project, to which people of all interests could make distinctive contributions. This is a discussion of "field theory," of the relationship (or "transaction") between the student and the material he studies. In the course of such a discussion, the physicist could relate the special problems of work...
...BOATINGS: Varsity: Bow, John Atherton; 2, Phil DuBois; 3, Ollie Iselin; 4, Link Boyden; 5, Steve Hedberg; 6, Lee Rouner; 7, George Gifford; stroke, Lou McCagg; cox, George Walker, J.V.I. Bow, Asp; 2, Keniston; 3, Bliss; 4, Slocum; 5, Anderson; 6, Bohlen; 7, Peale; stroke, A. Rouner; cox, Clark. Freshmen: Bow, Maynard; 2, Lincoln; 3, Sundquist; 4, Hagoort; 5, Geertseema; 6, Goodale; 7, Peterson; stroke, Brownell; cox, Mann...