Word: riesmans
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Actually, Fisher's back room is far off the main stream of grade-grubbing and competition, and Fisher himself does not thrash any students on to professional reward back here. Amid what David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Science, calls the disturbing consequences the preprofessional scramble is having on Harvard College, back here in the very boiler room of student aspiration--the office of career services--Fisher excuses himself from the turnmoil. He has not witnessed "avarice," he says, and the term "preprofessional scramble" is just too imprecise. Even the carrot and the stick, he says, are a gift...
...bottom of the heap is the Howard Johnson floor. Over and over in the harshly meritocratic scheme of David Riesman '31, the student who does not deserve to make it ends up on what Riesman figuratively labels "the Howard Johnson floor...
...Riesman called me yesterday to ask would it be feasible to move the Quad down to the car barn? (The "Quad," I'm sure you remember, refers to the three Radcliffe houses up near the Observatory.) Riesman kept going on about letting "the boys in Eliot House" keep an eye on some "tyrannous minority." I didn't quite catch the whole thing, but I promised to pass his suggestion...
Anyone with lingering regard for 1-1-2 should reconsider their position in light of the recently released letter by David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, favoring 1-1-2. The document illustrates how seriously 1-1-2 advocates misperceive undergraduate life. Is Riesman correct, for example, in saying that 1-1-2 is opposed by a "tyrannous" minority, part of which is "female or female-influenced" and is seeking only an "opportunity to impose its will on male captives and women who flee the milieux as soon as they can"? Does a four-class House, as Riesman...
...sense it is correct to say that a vocal part of the Quad community is forcing its wishes on others, particularly many women, who though they agree with the idea of a 1:1 ratio prefer it to be achieved elsewhere than at the Quad. The attacks on David Riesman for pointing this out are exceeded in savagery only by their peculiar failure to meet his arguments...