Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sociology 6 offers an historical comparison of selected cultures (Primitive, Hindu, Greco-Roman, Mediaeval, and Modern European). Until now this course has occupied a full year and consisted of unrelated and digressive lectures by a number of men in the department, which was almost impossible for Parsons to connect. This year the course will be reduced to a half year and Parsons will give it all. It should be a good course...
Since Sociology 7c has been made a full course and is therefore less hurried, it has become very well liked. It is on post-war European social reforms, and is useful for Government concentrators. Here again the reading is of minor importance...
Sociology 7d, a second half-year course on modern European criminal legislation, is also very interesting and thorough, but would be more of the former if there were less emphasis on cases and dates. Timasheff is an expert in this subject, and his lectures are so thorough that the reading is almost unnecessary...
...Czechoslovak Question boils down to how the aspirations of Adolf Hitler and his Sudeten stooge Henlein can be achieved without provoking a general European war. Such a war every leading Briton, whether Conservative, Liberal or Laborite wants to avoid at any cost, and thus in London last week Konrad Henlein was feted all but royally...
...compete with full-fledged & experienced European rivals, many U. S. conductors have not only studied in Europe but have launched their careers there. European opera houses will occasionally take on a U. S. student for odd jobs. Second-rate European orchestras can usually be hired for concerts. But hiring a loo-man orchestra to practice on is a luxury that only a very liberally financed maestro can afford...