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...David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, and a member of the task force which last year studied student life, says it is unfair to house freshman women, who mature more rapidly than males, with freshman boys. He prefers the older system whereby women lived at the Quad with the upper classes and the Harvard "fresh men" lived in the Yard...
Retiring Professor Samuel H. Beer seems a good bet, perhaps along with one of his former colleagues, John H. Finley '25 or David Riesman...
Some of the undergraduates' dissatisfactions may be of their own making, according to David Riesman'31, Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, whose studies of American higher education are basic works in the field. "There is something about Harvard which is idiosyncratic--its enormous allure brings many students here. I see many of them before they come, because they are the children of parents I know, or I'm supposed to know about higher education, and I say to them, given what you want out of college, and the fact that you're going on to med school...
...Riesman disagrees. He speaks of a "teach of perish" attitude in the tight academic job market that runs counter to the traditional complaints of "publish or perish...
This is a time in history when women, in increasing numbers, are expressing their uncensored perceptions in many fields, creating quarterlies and presses, finding confirmation and insight in each other's work. It is deeply offensive that, in a lecture to student writers, Mr. Riesman should suggest that any woman in his audience lay down her pen and take up the diaper and the broom, in order to enable men, once more, to wield unchallenged the power of words. Cynthia Rich