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Among those signing were professors Serge Chermayeff, Rupert Emerson, Donald Fleming, Mark De Wolfe Howe, H. Stuart Hughes, Howard Mumford Jones, and Pitirim A. Sorokin...
Sophomores found little alarming in Professor Pitirim Sorokin's warning that modern war is 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 colleges could be dropped to the advantage of everybody." Lewis denounced grading as "absurd"; whether he heard or not, Dean Hanford agreed enough to propose that separate April and November hour grades be abolished. The head of the Faculty approved this and dropped midyear probations and attendance records for upperclassmen at the same time. The head...
Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology; M. Stanley Livingston, director of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator; David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, Emeritus; and Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Emeritus, are among 57 individuals whose names are printed at the bottom of the petition...
These are the deeply felt convictions of Pitirim A. Sorokin, director of the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism, and one of the most widely read social scientists alive today. The author of more than thirty books, including Social and Cultural Dynamics, The American Sex Revolution, and The Crisis of Our Age, Sorokin's dire predictions are read in twenty languages, and the body of commentary on his work is staggering...
...predominant world culture of the last five centuries is crumbling, according to Pitirim A. Sorokin, director of the Research Center in Creative Altruism...