Word: riesmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Riesman, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, received considerable negative criticism from the predominantly, female audience when he said, "There are women who would bring to a department certain qualities of concern, responsiveness and responsibility that most men do not have...
...Professor Riesman suggests that "we may have to make do with incremental changes and small experiments, which could, however, become pilot models for larger changes." I fear that such marginal changes and minimal concessions could just as easily perpetuate an increasingly inadequate system-while undermining its legitimacy: a frequent result of incrementalism...
...Tilden and Professor Riesman may be right in suggesting that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences could never agree on a coherent new design. But if there has to be incoherence-or rather diversity-it ought at least to be deliberate, discussed and designed. A debate on the basic underlying issues would have the virtue of clarifying alternatives and of providing a rationale for experiments. Otherwise, we'll have another kind of pluralism, the one that stems from intellectual paralysis and leads to cacophony.Professor of Government
Neither the CRIMSON nor my friend Professor Riesman seems to have understood the point I tried to make on October 20 during the faculty meeting's discussion of curriculum reform. Since this point is, I think, of some importance, allow me to restate it here. All of the administrative items raised in Dean May's progress report on curriculum review seem to me to embody and entail basic conceptions about undergraduate education at Harvard. It seems to me intellectually and practically wrong to take up these items piecemeal without having first discussed the basic issues and defined an overall design...
...issue of student representation was not salient one. Today, however, it is; students are saying, 'Who can speak for me tomorrow? Not even me.' "Confused Mather students may prove Riesman right...