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Graduate students in Social Relations live "too high off the hog" to seek teaching fellowships at the College, Thomas F. Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, said yesterday. So many scholarships are available for graduates in the field, that they do not accept "fairly low-paid teaching fellowships, even though the positions do not require too much time," he added...
Freshmen, therefore, are advised by Faculty members who are "typically neutral or negative to Social Relations, and who are particularly anxious to attract the students into other fields," Pettigrew said...
Until Social Relations 10 was introduced in 1957, the Department was "at a horrible disadvantage" in the race to recruit Freshmen, Pettigrew said. Most students, when they enter college, "have not the slightest idea what sociology is, although they are quite familiar with most other subjects...
...Department accepts an "enormous" number of Sophomore transfer students each year, Pettigrew pointed out. These people "do very well," but would be better off if they were advised about Social Relations during the Freshman year, he asserted...
Morris also suggests that this compulsive "conscientiousness" among Radcliffe students also causes a dearth of "imagination" among female students. Evidence from different fields seems to indicate just the opposite, however. Pettigrew notes that girls in his course, Soc. Rel. 134, which concerns modern social problems such as integration, are more willing to take an "adventurous stand" than their Harvard colleagues. This might well be true, he says, because girls will never have to take the responsibility for their radical opinions after college. Nevertheless, the girls' approach toward the course, "irresponsible" or not, does lead to top grades. Each year...