Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's few successful adult education centers, the Cambridge center owes much of its success to the assistance given it by Professor Kirtley Mather and other Harvard officers. When originally conceived in 1938 as an activity of the Cambridge Social Union, the Center applied to its Boston counterpart for guidance. At that time, Mather was president of the Boston organization, and he went out of his way to aid Cambridge in setting up its branch. The enrollment that first year topped 300, and the organizers were encouraged into expanding the following year. More rooms were turned over to classes...
Dean Keppel went on to tell how each of the three fellows and succeeding fellows will follow an individual study program in one of the divisions of the University, especially the Business School, School of Public Administration, Department of Social Relations, and the Psychological Laboratories...
Professor Talcott Parsons, Chairman of the Department of Social Relations, has been relieved of his administrative duties this fall to conduct research. Professor Allport replaces him as temporary chairman of the Department...
Less publicized examples indicate a similar trend in Germany, however. Back in July, an Allied Military Government public opinion poll, which the Social Relations people point out may have under-estimated the situation, revealed that "sympathy for National Socialism" had jumped more than 20 per cent in two years. An independent survey, run off at the same time, spotted former Nazis in more than one-half of all Bavarian State Government positions...
...mass movement of mankind has its historians and its philosophers; so did this summer's migration. A Columbia professor and a group of students went to Europe just to write a book on American students in Europe. And a Social Relations man was running a complicated poll to find out why everyone was going...