Word: pitirim
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...Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, said that most of the problem was treated in various courses in the department, especially the popular course in "Family." He declared himself in favor of a "special practical guidance course," providing it didn't emphasize the Medical School's field of physiology, nor become a mere superficial exposition of courting techniques...
Support has been promised from the following members of the Faculty: Howard M. Jones, professor of English; Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology; Taylor Starck, associate professor of German; Louis J. A. Mercier, associate professor of French and Education; Michael Karpovitch, assistant professor of History; and Aurelio M. Espinosa, instructor in Romance Languages...
...naivete and boldness of a scientist," but soon "sacred cows were jostled'' and today Conant has subsided "to the dead level of mass alumni opinion." Sprightly, 66-year-old Porter Sargent criticizes President Conant most severely for keeping as head of Harvard's sociology department Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, whom he calls a pseudo-scientist, a defeatist and a reactionary. "Harvard is maintaining him in a position of influence where he is misguiding and frustrating American youth. . . . The sociology department is the White Russian...
While in Cambridge his constant companions have been Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, and Michael Karpovich, assistant professor of History, both of whom served him in former days...
...Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, praised the drive saying: "I am in entire sympathy with any move to end the horrible type of warfare which attacks women and children of civilian population...