Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portly man motored down from New England to Florida, not to put up at an expensive hotel for golf, sunburn and palmy evenings, nor yet to fill his pockets with realty profits, as other Northerners were doing; but to advance the cause of learning. He was Hamilton Holt, sociologist, peace promoter, onetime (1897-1921) editor of his grandfather's liberal weekly, The Independent. He became president of Rollins College? (TIME, Sept. 28, 1925) at Winter Park, Fla., and he proceeded to get Rollins mentioned soon and frequently in educational journals by abolishing lectures; instituting an informal course in things bookish...
CHARLES STELZLE, 58, Manhattan; sociologist and president of church advertising department of International Advertising Association...
...plunge him. There have been newly-elected presidents: and there have been x-presidents. There are heros of the hour and there are men, and women too, who have had their famous moments. Fickle and feverish attention is the vice of a child. There is much material for the sociologist in the childishness of the American public. The tabloids have exploited it professionally. Walter Lippmann and Professor Abbott have touched upon it philosophically. Realistic novelists have for several decades past been turning it to hand in one form or another. Still the impression persists that only the surface phenomena have...
...with interest. It has passed through the dangerous age. And the reviewer would like to express his conviction that never, not once, has the Lampoon's worst been one half as bad as the very best of most other college comic. Their jejune obscenities can be studied, by any sociologist who will take the trouble to collect an armful of them; and this will be an excellent thing for anyone who has lifted a supercilious eyelid at the peccadilloes of the Lampoon. The nastiness of little boys telling dirty stories in the alley behind the livery stable finds beautiful literary...
Clarence S. Darrow's forecast for Negroes, as revealed to Negroes at Washington, D. C., last week, contradicted Dr. Hankins. Said Amateur Sociologist Darrow: "The [Negro] breed is not running out. They are here and are here to stay. They are not going to Liberia. The white people don't want them to go. If the colored people should try to leave in any general exodus in any Southern state, they would probably be met by force to keep them where they are. Somebody has got to work. We Nordics are not going...