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...None of the eminent people would come to Harvard under the atmosphere of student domination," says Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31, who at the time was asked to help recruit faculty for the department...
...whole movement of these recent decades has been to make the [faculty] community more responsive to student needs," says Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31. "That was expedited by the events...
...alternative, according to Riesman, is to insure that aging faculty members secure emeritus status, a title he says will help professors remain involved in the academic community without displacing a younger generation of scholars...
...should think that the governing board will continue to give emeritus status to a person who gives up his teaching status to let another person in," Riesman says. "I see sadly my agemates who have no projects--they whither. When teaching stops, when scholarship stops, when the faculty meetings stop, I think they find an emptiness...
...must ask where the replacements will be coming from. Here at Harvard and other research universities, a very large part of the faculty comes from smaller research colleges [which are suffering themselves from a smaller pool of faculty]," says Riesman...