Word: riesmans
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Signatories of the letter included James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, William E. Alfred, professor of English, Elliot Forbes '40, Peabody Professor of Music; William Paul, McKay Professor of Applied Physics; Roger R.D. Revelle, Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy; and David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences...
...David Riesman, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, said yesterday that while he has not followed recent disclosures closely, he thinks that Watergate may have released many tensions which are not directly related...
...immediate issue is whether Sociologist Robert N. Bellah, 46, a professor at Berkeley, is worthy of being named to the institute's permanent faculty. Sociologists Talcott Parsons and David Riesman of Harvard, where Bellah once taught, consider him an "extraordinary" scholar in his field, the sociology of religion. Now, however, he is caught in a contest between the "hard" scientists in mathematics at the institute and the "softer" social scientists. The real issue is only partly his credentials as a scholar: the larger question is who will chart the institute's future...
...David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, said yesterday that Jencks "has an extraordinary range of abilities and is a fully capable and thoughtful writer." Riesman said that Jencks's interest in education goes back to his undergraduate days when Jencks wrote a paper on education for Riesman's course, Soc Sci 136, "Character and Social Structure in America...
...American Friends Service Committee and Medical Aid for Indochina will jointly Spencer the evening along with the musicians and individual donors, including President Bok, Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor, and David Riesman '32 Feed Professor of Social Sciences...