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...terms of grade competition." Rather, I emphasized the more general aspects of competitiveness at Harvard, among faculty as well as among students, at once burden, bravura, and benefit. Grade competition may well be higher at selective colleges with fewer non-academic arenas in which to seek distinction. David Riesman '31 Ford Professor of Social Sciences, emeritus
According to David Riesman '31, Ford Professorof Social Sciences Emeritus, the recent focus onthe international implications of American highereducation is actually a long-term movement that"is just beginning to be voiced by leaders...
...Riesman said that such efforts--like branchcampuses throughout the world--must be "a two-waystreet" by holding classes for foreign nativesalong with American undergraduates...
...image of the ship of state. In 1857 Macaulay told an American, "Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor." (A foreigner's elegant remark. Others suspect that the Constitution has entirely too much anchor -- too many checks and balances -- to make any headway at all.) The sociologist David Riesman likens the Constitution to the shallow keel of the national ferryboat, on which the passengers keep shifting from port to starboard and back again. One might also suggest the image of a trimaran -- a craft with three hulls (Legislative, Executive and Judicial) that is both stable and fast. Harvard...
...social "science." I developed the analysis on one concrete case in my book The File, triggered by Ladd-Lipset's "The 1977 Survey of the American Professiorate," and a review in the New York Review of Books of Education and Politics at Harvard by Lipset and David Riesman. As it happens, Seymour Martin Lipset is a member of the National Academy of Sciences...