Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, scored research foundations for what he termed their bias in favor of behaviorial sciences and against history at a December 30 convention of the American Historical Association in New York.
The historian also complained against the emphasis towards group rather than individual research projects. He expressed the hope that foundations would come to "regard the individual scholar and thinker not as an irritating nuisance, but as a primary responsibility."
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