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Here Harvard is already on its way. Two of the authors listed by Rimmer are already on the Harvard Faculty. Yes, Gordon W. Allport, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, and Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology Emeritus, have made Harrad's golden circle of authors with Becoming and The American Sex Revolution respectively. It surely wouldn't be asking too much for Allport and Sorokin to organize a Harvard course in "Human Values," like that required of all Harrad students. Harvard students could be taught the history of contraception in the opening lecture, as at Harrad, and move...
...Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was imprisoned in Northern Russia in 1918, waiting to be executed for anti-Bolshevik activities when he learned that Lenin had personally intervened to save his life...
Most of Winchester's residents have never heard of Pitirim A. Sorokin or his Center for Research in Creative Altruism. Sorokin lives a quiet life, befitting a retired college professor. His neighbors would probably be aghast to hear they are living next to a man once on speaking terms with Lenin and Trotsky, who was sentenced to death and then banished from his country, and who has produced some of sociology's most important "yarns...
...listed 19 faculty members who have agreed to deliver brief speeches on why they oppose the war. They include David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, and Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, emeritus...
There was no lack of persons ready to offer advice. Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, told the freshmen that modern war was 2000 times worse than the medieval version. Clarence Darrow denounced "poverty-creating big business" as the cause of all crime." Sinclair Lewis declared that "one half the people in college could be dropped to the advantage of everybody." Lewis dismissed grading as "absurd"; whether he heard or not Dean Hanford agreed enough to propose that separate April and November hour grades should be abolished. The head of the Faculty approved this and dropped midyear probations and attendance...