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Overseers typically hold full-time jobs in addition to their responsibilities to the College. According to Sheila J. Kuehl, a Harvard Law School graduate and member of the board of overseers, this range of experience is precisely what makes their advice to the University rel- evant...
Members of the Anthropology Department--those Riesman, a one-time member of Social Relations, calls the "Non-stone and bone men"--and social psychologists merged with the Sociology Department to form "Soc Rel." The intellectual disciplines which had clashed with the egos, political allegiances and perceived interests of Harvard's well-established departments then had free play...
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...
According to observers, that's exactly what happened in Soc Rel. The department grew "wings," divisions of scholars with similar interests. "Social Relations served a very good purpose, but I felt it fractured in the latter years," says Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences. According to Pattullo, Social Relations came to function as four separate departments under a larger framework. Others say that by the 1950s the department was already tenuring scholars for achievement in particular fields, having little regard for a candidate's contributions to "social relations" broadly understood...