Word: thernstrom
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...pressure for pure research and for a thoroughly academic faculty was largely Harvard's. Says Stephen Thernstrom, the sole Brandeis member, "There was pressure from Harvard for 'first-class' people, not, say, consultants to the mayor. MIT is more promiscuous. MIT would have liked more autonomy; Harvard, as usual, was much fussier about appointments...
Both members and non-members point to Urban Planning Aid as the kind of enterprise academic people can engage in outside the auspices of the university. UPA is a firm of consultants founded, as Thernstrom puts it, "on the assumption that one of the reasons poor people get screwed is that they no technical competence." The members (two of them, Chester Hartman and Lisa Peattie, are Joint Center members) volunteer their services to represent the poor to development authorities...
...build cyclotrons can still compete for historians (and everybody wants American historians), "It's a constant struggle to keep instructional quality in American history at a high level," Handlin says. This demand is partly responsible for the loss of two promising assistant professors of American history last year--Stephen Thernstrom, now a professor at Brandeis, and Gordon Wood, who went to the University of Michigan...
...same remainder will, almost certainly, be on a book by Stephen A. Thernstrom, assistant professor of History, who made a study of the planning which led up to Action for Boston Community Development--Boston's anti-Poverty agency--if the manuscript is published at all. Thernstrom's critical analysis has already provoked matters of anger from local politicians and officials, and the author frankly admits that the publication would probably "set off a minor furor." The issue is particularly sensitive because the Ford Foundation both helps the Joint Center and is also involved with ABCD. Moynihan insists, however, that both...
Thirty-one faculty members and students from the Boston area will discuss the Administration's policy in Vietnam at a 12-hour long Boston University teach-in tonight. Among them will be throe members of the Harvard Faculty: Barrington Moor Jr., lecturer on Sociology; Stephen Thernstrom, instructor in History and Literature; and Mark Mancall, research fellow in East Asian Studies...