Word: pettigrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wall of hatred between children from the town and the mill villages. Scripture-quoting West Virginia-born Boyd Payton, 51, Textile Workers' director for the Carolinas, keeps his remarkably loyal Bible-belt flock together with reminders of the old Confederate heritage, likens the strikers to "those who followed Pettigrew, Fender and Pickett to the heights of Gettysburg...
Graduate students in Social Relations live "too high off the hog" to seek teaching fellowships at the College, Thomas F. Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, said yesterday. So many scholarships are available for graduates in the field, that they do not accept "fairly low-paid teaching fellowships, even though the positions do not require too much time," he added...
Freshmen, therefore, are advised by Faculty members who are "typically neutral or negative to Social Relations, and who are particularly anxious to attract the students into other fields," Pettigrew said...
Until Social Relations 10 was introduced in 1957, the Department was "at a horrible disadvantage" in the race to recruit Freshmen, Pettigrew said. Most students, when they enter college, "have not the slightest idea what sociology is, although they are quite familiar with most other subjects...
...Department accepts an "enormous" number of Sophomore transfer students each year, Pettigrew pointed out. These people "do very well," but would be better off if they were advised about Social Relations during the Freshman year, he asserted...