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Ford Professor of Social Science Emeritus David Riesman '31 concurs that the long shadow of the Reagan presidency has fostered a sense of "futility," especially on the issue of nuclear weapons. He notes that while the issue has sparked intense interest around the country, it has attracted little political action here--a sharp contrast with the late 50s and early 60s when Riesman and some colleagues drew hundreds of students to fight for the test...
...Harvard was a beacon to other universities," said David Riesman '31. Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, in an interview last week. "There may have been some smudges on the escutcheon, but it was a handsome escutcheon nonetheless...
...Riesman, who did not arrive at Harvard until 1958, more than five years after the worst of the McCarthy period, has done landmark studies of education and the educational atmosphere at Harvard. He pointed out that McCarthy trained his guns on Harvard with a vengeance second only to those he reserved for "the establishment" stretching along the Potomac River. In 1953, McCarthy would bring his hearing committee proceedings to Boston to challenge Harvard professors, and later in the year he accused then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 of producing a "Red-Mess" in Cambridge...
...Speaking as someone who was not in Cambridge during that period, but who looked to Harvard as a leader in the world of the academy. I think we all took heart in Harvard's actions," said Riesman. Harvard's public image and its handling of the most celebrated cases did set the University apart from other colleges in the nation. Despite President James B. Conant's '14 signature on a 1949 National Education Association report which stated that Communist Party members "should not be employed as teachers." Harvard did take a comparatively firm stand against McCarthy; first, by selecting Pusey...
WITHOUT DOUBT, the college constituencies, as these politicians in the academy call them, exhibit ambivalence over the power of the president "Students do not want the president to enforce the local drinking age," claimed Riesman, who established his academic career decrying trends among our generation in The Lonely Crowd, "but are happy to invoke in loco parentis surreptitiously when they get in trouble." The faculty of a college, Riesman argues, feels ambivalent about the president's power, expecting some sort of errand boy to free them from lowly administrative chores, but skeptical of any real power...