Word: riesmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Houses helped provide a 'critical mass' of people potentially alert to conversation about books and ideas, and to redeem for adult faculty an undergraduate body previously regarded as largely indifferent to them," Riesman recalls...
...boom in higher education...brought the news of the availability of colleges like Harvard to a much larger group of high schools than before the war," Riesman wrote...
...article in this month's issue of Change magazine, Riesman described a contagious "cynicism and loss of faith" that makes the future of Harvard and other institutions like it "impossible to predict." The article is adapted from Two Essays on Harvard: Politics and Education in Harvard College, which Riesman plans to coauthor with Seymour M. Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations...
...Riesman outlines a shift from "aristocratic meritocracy" to "egalitarian meritocracy" which has taken place at Harvard over the 40 years since his graduation. Aristocratic meritocracy, loosely defined, is based on subjective criteria while egalitarian meritocracy relies on objective standards such as grades and test scores...
...Riesman argues that the initial impetus for egalitarian meritocracy came from President Lowell's early 20th century drive to upgrade the quality of the Harvard faculty and student body...