Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee, established in 1932 to administer funds received mostly from the Rockefeller Foundation for research in the Social Sciences, has announced the following grants for this year...
Under grants totalling $16,642 awarded by the Committee on Research in the Social Sciences, members of the faculty during the coming year will investigate social security, labor, public administration, commedity distribution, prices, and other subjects in economics and sociology...
...field of "Social Security", Edwin Frickey, associate professor of Economics, "A Survey of Time Series Analysis and its Relation to Economic Theory;" and Seymour E. Harris, associate professor of Economics, "Economics of Social Security...
...forth into the world the results of their research. For as Dean Williams has said, the emphasis of the School will be upon investigation and research rather than upon formal instruction. Through the agency of the Littauer Center, a distinct attempt is being made to direct work in the social sciences at Harvard more effectively towards the larger problems of policy and administration with which our government is confronted...
Undoubtedly this approach, worked out only after two years of conferences and discussion, will prove very significant. It may well be the dawn of a new era in training men for government position. But the more immediate result will be the graduates of the School, the social engineers of the future. The eyes of the nation are focused on these men, and it is their job to carry the torch, to bring the light. It is up to them to be the trained city-managers, the heads of government bureaus, the professors of political economy of tomorrow. Their...