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...Union, which includes more than 100 Harvard teachers in all and which numbers seven on its executive council, has as its president David W. Prall, associate professor of Philosophy here. Prall succeeded J. Raymond Walsh, former Economics instructor here. The Cambridge Union is a local of the American Federation of Teachers, of which Professor Jerome Davis, formerly of Yale University, is the National President...
...Besides Prall, Harvard teachers on the executive council of the Cambridge Union of Teachers include Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer on Chemistry, Earl G. Latham '31, instructor in Government, Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, Earl G. Mims, instructor in Government, Erbest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English, and Alan R. Sweezy '29, instructor in Economics...
...Prall Comments on Statement...
...personal impression is that the first two hundred pages of Sorokin's first volume contain the decisive argument, but D. W. Prall thinks so little of that volume that we might well summarize his tortuous arguments in the good old American phrase...
...Prall, the subtle theorist of esthetic problems, is evidently irritated beyond endurance by Sorokin's treatment. "In fact," Prall cries out, "Professor Sorokin rejects all art; the term means to him only 'subject matter' ". According to Prall, it would be absurd to accept Professor Sorokin's terms, and "as a guide to the fluctuations (of art) through the centuries a blind man is no help...