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...Rosovsky makes a very persuasive case for his ideas," said David Riesman '31,professor of social sciences, emeritus...
...Riesman said he was particularly interested inRosovsky's contention that students should opt toattend large research universities instead ofsmaller liberal-arts colleges...
During that struggle, Harvard played an active role in supporting the effort to defeat the Axis Powers, according Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31. Classes were accelerated to allow students to graduate early and join the armed forces. Harvard's president during the war, James Bryant Conant '14, played a large role in developing the atomic bomb. And the University had a special school to train administrators who helped run the American district in Germany after that country's surrender...
...comes from a family of solemnity and seriousness," Riesman says, noting that Bok's mother was a friend of writers W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. "He grew up in an environment of high seriousness, and he maintains that...
...more bonhomie than when he came in, more capacity for wit," Riesman says...