Word: containers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson of April 27, discussing the Social Relations Department, contains an implication that needs correction. It is quite correct to state that our disciplines contain more theory than fact. It is incorrect to imply that prospective concentrators can look to an early ending of this condition. Our primary interest is in the development of a systematic and rigorous body of social theory capable of predicting behavior. To state that we are getting more empirical is only to state that we are interested in the operation and materials by which we can test our theories...
...speed with which its interior lights up and stays lit with a significance almost too delicate to name." Such stories do not date, for, as Van Doren says, they deal with timeless events, "and once Hawthorne is truly among them he is master of the simple matter they contain...
Falling into the semi-fiction category are sociology courses on Russia, the United States, France, Germany, England, the Near and Far East and many others. Primarily from the sociological point of view, these courses contain much History and are as well adapted for the non-concentrator or new entree into the field as they are for the well-initiated...
Psychiatrics notwithstanding, most Viennese theatergoers took Harvey to their hearts as simply as a child takes his Easter bunny. Restaurant-keepers, says Vienna's Elwood Dowd (Actor Oscar Karlweis), are constantly thrusting gift packages at him. Most of them contain cabbage and carrots for the kindly rabbit who nightly helps his friend to find good in his fellow man. Even the Polish Minister seemed to have fallen sway to the rabbit's charm. At a dinner at the legation recently, he called Karlweis aside for a vodka. He poured out two glasses. "One for you," he told Vienna...
Like the mother chapter, the Harvard branch was basically a social organization. Early records describing the iniation ceremony contain much high flown language such as, "here you are to become the brother of unalionable brothers . . . everything transacted within this room is transacted sub ross, and detested is he that discloses...