Word: messner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only there is no such person as Dick Rosen. The examination was taken by Edward Messner '49, a concentrator in Mathematics, who is not enrolled in Social Relations 114 and who had been to none of the lectures and done none of the reading for the course...
...Messner was in Memorial Hall on the afternoon of March 25, waiting for a rehearsal of "Corialanus" to begin, when he noticed that an examination was being administered. He saw a friend, sat down next to him, and asked, "What's the name of this course...
...friend told him that the course was Social Relations 114 (which is Professor Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn's "Anthropology and Modern Life"), and buttressed with this fact, Messner proceeded to write his C-plus paper...
...question consisted of quotations from two book reviews, both dealing with Margaret Mead's "Keep Your Powder Dry" and Geoffrey Gorer's. "The American People." Messner chose to write about "The American People" because "its title gave me some clue to what the book is about...
...Messner, who has taken only one Social Relations course (Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin's "Contemporary Sociological Theory), said he wroth the examination "from the point of view of the Harvard man who doesn't stoop to mere detail...