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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most famed modern sociologists is Robert Staughton Lynd, Princeton '14. Dr. Lynd is best known for the monumental studies he and his eminent wife made of the town of Muncie, Ind. and described in Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937). Since he wrote Middletown, Dr. Lynd has taught sociology at Columbia University and brooded on the fact that mankind, busily using the knowledge of natural scientists to make dangerous machines, remains in different to the knowledge of social scientists. Looking upon a chaotic world, Professor Lynd decided that it was a great tragedy that "men build their cultures...
...final Table, Pressure Groups ion a Democracy, Senator Sherman Minton of Ind.; E. B. Libbey, of the National Society for the Prevention of War; and Russell Davenport, Managing Editor of Fortune, and listed...
Washington Herald Washington, Ind...
...native of Lafayette, Ind. (where he was an art-classmate at Purdue of George Ade and John T. McCutcheon), Bruce Rogers decided on book-designing instead of painting when he saw the first books of William Morris' famed Kelmscott Press. In the '90s, when Bruce Rogers started his career, U. S. books were as dingily printed as they were apt to be turgidly written. They provided an aesthetic sensation for readers not unlike that of walking along a muddy road in the dark. Bruce Rogers' imaginative, lucid, unaffected craftsmanship let air and light into book pages. Other...
...Purdue University's tidy airport near Lafayette, Ind., at commercial fields near twelve other institutions of higher learning across the continent, 330 college students last week were being trained with National Youth Administration money ($100,000 in all) to go into the most deadly activity in U. S. aviation-amateur flying. Vanguard of a host of private pilots that Civil Aeronautics Authority hopes to turn out at the rate of 20,000 a year from hundreds of U. S. colleges, they will have better basic training than the run of cornfield fliers...