Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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aging I. If ' '- 5 :,.' ,QI s I -.a,.ff-A., fl as 1. . -' ' .-', X, ' , Y i' '23 . . . cv -. . The late Samuel Cross headed Harvard's Slavic Department. He died suddenly in October, 1946. we social scientists are, I am afraid sadly in need of such criticism. Our real problems are very diHicult to solve, but it is not very diflicult to see what they are. When the faculty overlooks them, the students have plenty of leeway, within the limits of academic good manners, to remind them of their oversight. Delivery by the 25th This may seem to some a baleful survey, like an esti- mate ofthe moral accomplishments of the Republicans written to appear in The New Republic. In fact, nothing of the sort is intended. The failure of the social scientists is not peculiar SAMUEL STOUFFER Professor of Sociology O. H. TAYLOR- lmcturer un lQCOllHllll0N BENJAMIN FLETCHER WRIGHT l'rnl'i-ssnr ui LiUY1'l'Illlll5lllf 1 CHARLES HOLT TAYLOR llc-ury Clmrli-s In-11 l'rnfi-Nsor of lN'luiliuevnl llisiory ABBOTT PAYSON USHER Professor oi Economies CARLE ZIMMERMAN Xssuiriule Professor ol Sociology Roscoe Pound, dean of American jurisprudence, retired in 1947 William Yandell Elliott is a regular Washington-Cambridge after 37 years teaching at Harvard. He has been in China during commuter. A noted political theorist, he was Vice-Chairman of the last two years codifying Chinese law and reorganizing the .the War Production Board and later staff director of the House judiciary. His photographic memory is world-famous. Foreign Relations Committee.

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years. Mr. Buck at least is entitled to some credit for work accomplished by indirection: the new developments in General Education under his leadership are already having the result of their methods and their premises. Eventually there may emerge from this a new ts. But it still seems to forcing some social scientists to re-examine sense of mission for all social scientis some not associated with University administration the steps taken have been too slow and somewhat oblique, given the urgency of the social scientists' task. The Customers and Shoddy Goods It is here that students in Harvard College enter the d to the failure of picture. They too, I think, have contribute the social scientists to meet the challenge of these decades. They have displayed great interest in the social sciences-but musement value than with lems of mid-twentieth century society. The dramatic lecturer the picaresque story-teller gains a following. Rarely is he stopped and asked where he is going or what he is trying to do. One of our younger political scientists fnow no longer among usj once built a sizeable reputation by collecting and repeating a long series of dotes about American public figures, past and present. The students loved it--and only one or two of them ' ' ll 91 f l took the pains to discover that this scholar was one o tie finest examples of native fascists ever to emerge out of the American southwest. Like cosmetic manufacturers, teachers are human. The continued acceptance of shoddy goods by usually more concern with their a their capacity to meet the prob obscence anec the customers is a standing invitation to the faculty to con- tinue doing business at the same old stand. Students sometimes forget that the reciprocal relation with their teachers goes beyond lectures and reading lists in exchange for examinations and term papers. There is, or at P bl' Ad ' istration expert john Gaus was known as Ameri- One of the fathers ofthe Marshall Plan, Edward Mason, succeeded hn H. Willialms as Dean of the Littauer School of Public Administration. Professor .Io least there should be, a further mutual responsibility to correct nonsense, to question ends, to point our opportunities missed. This is in a sense the essence of creative criticism and Merle Fainsod, who is an authority on Russia, was a key man in u 1C mm Harvard in 1947. the O.P.A. during the war. ca's most beloved professor when he came to

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