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...There is a tension between teaching and research, but to resolve it by saying, 'focus only on teaching' is not a solution," according to David A. Riesman '31, Ford Foundation professor of social sciences emeritus, "because then faculty members members only get older, and not wiser...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Forging A Vision For Harvard | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

Despite the criticisms Bok has weathered, Riesman concludes that the president's academic vision for the University has translated into reality...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Forging A Vision For Harvard | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...Before Conant came, there was no tenure pressure, so people could be tutors indefinitely," says David Riesman '31, who has studied the development of education at Harvard. "Conant saw this as too cozy, too inert...

Author: By Dhananjai Shivakumar, | Title: Drifting Away From the Architect's Vision | 4/25/1990 | See Source »

Ever since Conant's time, Riesman says, the concept of tutorials as being housed-based interactions between students and young Ph.D.s has gradually disappeared, together with menus and waiters...

Author: By Dhananjai Shivakumar, | Title: Drifting Away From the Architect's Vision | 4/25/1990 | See Source »

...Here is a man of great intellectual [merit],"said David Riesman '31, Ford professor of socialsciences emeritus and long-time Harvard facultywatcher. "Some men of that temper discover totheir astonishment that they like raising money.This doesn't seem to be Mike Spence...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Spence Resigns to Take Stanford Post | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

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