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...more apprehensive than Riesman about the current search...
...student demonstrations were interpreted asa reaction to the general academic environment,"Riesman says. "There was a desire for someone whocould be responsive to undergraduates...
...sharp change in direction was nothing new.Indeed, each man to occupy the president's officein this century has created a University markedlydifferent from his predecessor's, Riesman says...
...Conant's model was the German researchuniversity, and during Lowell's later years, hedidn't hide his criticism of the tutorial system,"Riesman says. "It seemed to him British,Oxford-common-room, soft, too colloquial, tooconversational...
...Nathan Pusey represented a return, in somerespects, to a pre-Eliot Harvard," Riesman says."He came out of the humanities, developed theDivinity School and supported Memorial Church. Hiswas a Harvard of Houses, a Harvard of tutors, aHarvard of conversation...