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...origins in slavery, no other ethnic group has started so far behind in America with so many historical liabilities. For blacks the way up is all the steeper, the climb the more arduous. What is encouraging is that they seem to be making a successful ascent. Thomas Pettigrew, a social psychologist at Harvard, believes that the middle class is gaining the "know-how to pass on from generation to generation." As it does, an increasing number of blacks will meet with whites on equal terms without the insecurities that beset both races. The best guarantee of durable, amicable race relations...
...general survey will force everyone to study the biological and psychological aspects of psychology, without the counterbalancing effect of requiring the biology people to study sociology," Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor of Social Psychology, said yesterday...
...Lots of people believe there has been a radical shift in this area between present classes at Harvard and those just a few years ago," Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor of Social Psychology and instructor in the course, said yesterday...
...Pettigrew declined to describe the questionnaire fully because, he said, to do so might prejudice results...
...random sample poll will survey one-ninth of Harvard and Radcliffe sophomores, juniors, and seniors selected in advance for participation, Pettigrew said...