Word: magnetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henrichs also said that Hanfmann was "a great magnet who attracted huge numbers of students...
Professor Robert F. Bales, who retired from teaching this semester, was a member of Soc Rel and says the new department was a "great success," luring the best minds in human behavior to Cambridge. Riesman, who also served in Soc Rel, agrees it was a "national magnet." "It brought a great faculty, superb graduate students and it was very attractive to undergraduates," he says. According to Bales, Soc Rel's undergraduate concentrators had interests similar to those who currently pursue degrees in Social Studies...
With its broad conception of human behavior,Bales, a former member, says the department was a"huge success." According to another formerdepartment member, Riesman, the department was a"national magnet," attracting, "a great faculty,superb graduate students, and it was veryattractive to undergraduates...
concentrated over there, in an increasingly thick and crammed vortex, as when a magnet hidden under a sheet of paper attracts iron filings, making patterns that become darker one moment, lighter the next, and in the end dissolve and leave on the white page a speckling of scattered fragments...
...couldn't not come--he drew you to him like a magnet," said Jim Levine, a 1967 Amherst graduate who flew in from New York for the service...