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...course, it won't be a surprise when they announce the names of Senior Professor John H. Finley '25 and David H. Riesman, Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, this Thursday. Nor will anyone gaze with amazement when Corporation member Albert Nickerson steps up to that podium in the makeshift Tercentary Theatre...
...David Riesman, L.H.D. A notable theorist of American higher education...
...these days when every student is grade conscious," Riesman said, "a course with no final exam--where there is no certainty of a high grade--the students would tend to take a course seriously. A few students have failed, to their astonishment...
...Riesman said that the greatest fear of the faculty, in agreeing to permit him to offer a course without a final, was that the mandatory papers would be plagiarized from papers students had written for other courses. In the seventeen years he taught the course, Riesman said he had seen only one or two instances of the offense...
...glad if a student does this and tells us," Riesman said, "but if a student does this and does not inform us ahead of time, I'm in favor of severe action--expulsion...