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HARVARD CHAPTER OF PHI BETA KAPPA. Tercentenary meeting in Sanders Theatre at 7.30 o'clock. Orator, Professor Bronislaw Malinowski; Poet, Robert Frost '01. Sections reserved for members and other ticket holders. Others may apply for tickets to the Top Gallery at the Alumni Registration Office in Straus Hall...
...Malinowski, professor of Anthropology at the University of London and one of the world's best known anthorities in the field, was a participant in the Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences, speaking on "Culture as a Department of Human Behavior." In his discussion, Dr. Walinowski urged the use of "scientific determinism" in the study...
...agree. A Frenchman was fatuous, an American was reflective, an Englishman was optimistic, but it took a Chinaman to pour cold water on the whole project in a stream of heartless logic. While Dr. Etienne Gilson had the European's traditional and misplaced confidence in the American public, Professor Malinowski of London asserted sensibly that any such organization hopeful of success must be backed by force. Here is nothing new. There is no doubt today that a League of Nations with "horsepower" would enforce the peace its founders dreamed of, but nationalism can hardly be overthrown by professors with...
...Functionalism" is a name which anthropologists immediately connect with Bronisiaw Malinowski, anthropologist of the University of London, the last speaker of this symposium, whose address was on the subject of "Culture as a Determinant of Behavior." The term represents a concept of a many-sided functioning as a unit, with all its customs and traditions interrelated. Malinowski observed just such a functional society during a very close study of the Trobriand Indians of Melanesia, and by giving bird's eye views of the culture of the Masal tribes of Africa, the Chagga, also of Africa, the Esquimaux, and the Trobrianders...
Sometimes the author of the paper came into the press conference. The most interesting experience was that of Professor Malinowski, famed anthropologist, who in explaining his paper to the Fourth Estate said "It cannot be made into a definite science. A mother-in-law cannot be reduced into a mathamatical formula." Continuing he said, in explaining the place that he expected women might have in the future society of the world, "I do not believe that women can ever become the dominant sex. They might become the dominant nuisance...