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...Pitirim A. Sorekin, chairman of the Sociology Department, and Louis Cons, professor of French Literature, will speak at the meeting, which is open to the public. In addition, the only Allied-released motion picture of the Nazi invasion of France will be shown...
Whatever one may think of Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin's controversial theories, "The Crisis of Our Age" is a valuable book, a single-volumed, relatively concise key to the thought locked in the prolix prose of the four-volumed "Social and Cultural Dynamics." Whatever one may think of these theories, Sorokin is worthy of a careful reading. By his own repeated confession here is the man who has made of sociology a super-social science, the only man who has successfully rationalized man's history, the only man who can successfully explain the crisis of our age--and then just...
Sociology A: "While opinions of [Pitirim] Sorokin vary from crackpot to genius, he is still one of the commanding personalities at Harvard. ... It will do you no harm to hear Sorokin on Sorokin at least for half year...
...further explained that in times of depression or war, when moral habits are weakened, belief in the occult increases. Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, supported this view by declaring last night that in times of disintegration of society, like the present and like the time of the decay of the Roman Empire, a growing interest in astrology is likely to be one of the manifestations of the social and cultural disintegration...
Billy Rose, famous international showman, this Friday offered the services of six of the most beautiful girls from his Diamond Hersoshoe nightclub in New York to be used in putting into practice the new plan of admission to Harvard recently set forth by Pitirim A. Sorokin, Professor of Sociology...