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...educators are much concerned with recreation, because what a nation does with its leisure is an index of its character and culture. Five years ago Northwestern University and the Chicago Recreation Commission began a monumental study, costing $250,000 (most of it supplied by WPA), of public and private recreation in Chicago...
Head of this survey is burly Dr. Arthur James Todd, chairman of Northwestern's department of sociology and anthropology, whose personal pastimes are painting and badminton. This week he published a 176-page report on commercial recreation, the most exhaustive study ever made in the U. S. of what people do clandestinely and publicly with their spare time...
...helped organize a socialist society, left Utah in disgust when three faculty members were dismissed for unorthodox opinions. He went to Harvard, enlisted, was a lieutenant of infantry before he got back to Harvard to take his degree in 1920. He had taught for five years at Northwestern, married, published four novels that got high critical praise but few sales, a biographical study, Mark Twain's America...
Slender, bushy-haired William Montgomery McGovern, 40, Northwestern's famed professor of political science, had brought back from the Orient the research to complete a book, The Empires of Central Asia, on which he has been working seven years and whose first volume will be published in April. He was also primed with new learning for his courses on Asia...
...went to Oxford University for more education in 1917 and worked his way through by teaching Chinese at the University of London. He arrived in Chicago as assistant curator of anthropology of the FUd Museum in 1927, joined the faculty of Northwestern two years later...