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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the first World War, determined efforts have been made by several U. S. universities-notably Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, Minnesota, Stanford -to put social investigation on a scientific basis. In 1929 the University of Chicago dedicated a new building, financed mainly by the Rockefeller Foundation and designed to house Chicago's Division of Social Sciences. Last week social scientists from all over the U. S. assembled there to celebrate its tenth anniversary and take stock of their work. They did not pile up detailed reports of social research. They discussed techniques, viewpoints, "frames of reference," spheres of influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...tellers came into the hall. The news was amazing; it was a hermaphrodite. The Progressives had won strategic posts for four of their seven candidates. Elected were: Dr. Ernst Philip Boas of Columbia, chairman of the Committee on Public Relations; Dr. Bernard Solomon Denzer of Mt. Sinai Hospital, chairman of the Committee on Medical Economics; Drs. Henry Barber Richardson of Cornell and Edward K. Barsky of Beth Israel Hospital, delegates in a group of 13 to the New York State Medical Convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Liberal and Inquiring | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Since Harvard turned itself into a Communist university along with the University of Chicago and Columbia. Harvard Alumni are pretty disgusted with it. It may furnish a Communist President and a Communist member of the Supreme Court and a lot of other government Communists but it can't play the American game of Football or any other truly American thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

...your Communist President and your football coach and turn into an American college and maybe you can do something so the Alumni don't have to apologize for or be ashamed of it. Otherwise play only U. of C. and Columbia where you belong, the Columbia will lick you. You may still be able to beat the Communist University of Chicago. Yours without respect. R. R. Goodell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

...confused with Columbia University's philosopher-pedagogue Irwin Edman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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