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...Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, decries this situation in an article for this month's "Atlantic Monthly" entitled, "Yearning for Security...
Recalling his generation of the early thirties. Handlin notes a deep concern with individual self-development, free expression, and social progress. They too were realists, as some describe the postwar generation. But their realism left room for continuing experiment and an element of non-conformity...
...contrast, this generation seems to delight in dogma. Handlin reluctantly observes "all the eager young faces looking up at the platform, waiting to be told what to believe...
...present Syndics from the College are John O. Brew, director of Peabody Museum, Mason Hammond '25, professor of Greek and Latin, Oscar Handlin, professor of American History, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, Paul C. Mangelsderf, professor of Botany, Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astronomy, and Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology...
...Handlin concentrated most of his criticism on sociology. He called the field "the study of material left over from government and economics...