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...Harvard Observatory has dipped into many qualitative astronomical problems. It is known for research on solar phenomena, the galaxies and nebulae, the Milky Way, meteors and comets, stellar spectra, variable star astronomy, and globular clusters, and it specializen in astrophysics, the science that deals with the constitution of the stellar bodies...
...statement, issued by head tutor Joseph A. Kahl, said that "the principal purpose of the honors thesis is not to provide a concrete description or journalistic account of particular events, persons, or places, but rather to analyze social phenomena in such a way as to yield statements about general regularities in human behavior...
...that are indecent just don't live long in this country." It is easy enough to refute this argument; prejudice and crooked politics are obvious examples. But the important thing to show the coaches and everyone else concerned is that the "indecent" parts of college football are not surface phenomena and that attacking effects instead of causes will lead nowhere...
Among the most significant phenomena at San Francisco last week was one invisible to the naked eye. It was a slow shower of feathers. The Communists' dove of peace, the bird that walks like a bear, had lost most of its plumage...
...Sorokin leading this part of the department. Sorokin, of course, goes his own merry way, which is a different way from all the other sociologists, but he is certainly a stimulating teacher. Parsons, on the other hand, gives a solid and very valuable, though uninspired analysis of sociological phenomena...