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President Mary I. Bunting announced today the appointments of the first House Masters for the newly created Radcliffe Houses. They are: Harold Martin, director of General Education A and lecturer on Comparative Literature; David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology and chairman of the staff Center for Research in Personality; and Kenneth V. Thimann, professor Biology...
...about getting into college?" In a recent speech titled "A Dull Boy Is Jack," Colorado College President Louis T. Benezet warned that high school is fast becoming a "cramming session" in which the chief dynamic is "quite simply: more." The once lusty word "excellence," writes Harvard Psychologist David C. McClelland, now means only "the ability to take examinations and get good grades in school." As alarmists see it, a strictly academic "meritocracy" is breeding bloodless youngsters with no real joy in life, love or learning...
...David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology, revealed yesterday that he is establishing a training course for foreign businessmen as a means of stimulating economic growth in their countries...
...idea for the course grew out of Professor McClelland's latest book. The Achieving Society, in which he found that achievement is the prime motivation for economic growth...
Professor McClelland has indicated that this course could prove a valuable complement to our policy of helping poor countries industrialize, since it trains industrialists to think in a manner necessary to successful business enterprises--a method of thought often neglected in their societies...