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...students to keep anyone satisfied sounds tantalizingly attractive. But gathered together recently with Symposium on Higher Education at the Education School, though, four once and future college presidents expressed more than mixed feelings. Moderated by the presiding dean of of American sociology. Ford Professor of Social Sciences emeritus David Riesman M. ex-officials addressed the question "How Much Authority Does a College President Really Have?" Like most questions punctuated with reality, the question begs answers that will debunk certain myths--or denials so complete they invited suspicion where none existed before...
...Riesman charged, student radicals look to the president as someone to blame "all that is hideous on." would not the presidents want to deflect that responsibility else-where? And if the presidents must indeed be held "inceasingly responsible to constituencies that are often antagonistic to each other," is it not natural and not inconvenient to blame al failures, real or imagined, upon some amorphous lack of authority...
...waited on by a busty proprietress who was apt to dictate what one ate Up the street, at the Brattle Inn, presided over by two maiden sisters, bright law students such as Jim Rowe and Ed Rhetts (who went on to distinguished careers in the Roosevelt administration) and David Riesman, winding up their third year at the Harvard Law School under the tutelage of Felix Frankfurter, would argue cases over lunch in the ladylike atmosphere of the inn's dining room David Riesman, whom I remember as the intellectual pet and buzzing fadfly of his more worldly classmates, would have...
...Everyone was stunned and kind of wandering around," Riesman recalls describing the San Francisco conference he was at. In Cambridge, like cities all over the country, groups clustered around televisions and radios to follow the latest news about the shooting...
Peace Corps workers in South America had a similar experience. Riesman recalls the accounts of Peace Corps volunteers after the assassination. Although many of the workers themselves disliked Kennedy because of his tough anticommunist line with Castro, the rural peasants came to them to mourn the death of Kennedy. "They had been fashionably cynical, and the peasants who worshipped Kennedy came to grieve...