Word: mccord
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William E. McCord, Chairman of the Board of Tutors in Social Relations, revealed yesterday that the number of sophomores concentrating in Social Relations this year had dropped 25% from last year's total, while the proportion of honors candidates has increased...
Allport, who directed McCord's thesis, observed that "McCord is remarkably productive, having done far more research than is customary for his age. He also has extensive administrative talents as well as scholarly ones." Both of these fields of ability will be useful when McCord becomes Assistant Dean of the Faculty and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford at the end of this term...
...Intellectually, Harvard is the best place in the world, it was a hard choice to make." The Social Relations Department is noted for its few positions of tenure. There is a great deal of regret in the Social Relations Department over McCord's leaving; some students even found McCord's courses one of the major reasons for concentrating in the department...
...Social Relations Department, in many ways, provided the perfect home for a man of McCord's intellectual curiosity and scope. McCord terms himself a social psychologist, but as he points out, social psychology is a diffuse field. Others find more trouble categorizing him, Allport describes him as "A very broad-gauged fellow, I don't know what to call him. He demonstrates the goal of the department...
...have made such a reputation by the age of twenty-seven, is indeed a remarkable achievement. But as McCord points out, "This is a new field. A scholar is not limited to pedantic trivial subject matter to uncover fresh knowledge. Even an undergraduate can make an original discovery." McCord is an example of the new scholarship, a man whose youth and consequent lack of preconception about human behavior, help him examine society by eclectically drawing from all fields of social thought in order to better understand and help the society itself...