Word: sociologist
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Died, Dr. Franklin Henry Giddings, 76, pioneer U. S. sociologist, professor emeritus of sociology at Columbia University; after a long illness; in Scarsdale, N. Y. An oldtime editorial writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he succeeded Woodrow Wilson as economics professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1888, went to Columbia in 1894, first U. S. sociology professor to hold a chair so designated. To a science still largely abstract he brought a new, exact method, involving for the first time statistical studies. His authoritative Principles of Sociology was ten years a-writing...
...questions to Editor Brisbane, printed questions and answers (copyrighted by Mr. Brisbane) last week. Most significant were Editor Brisbane's replies concerning the influence of his father, Albert Brisbane, who in the 1830's and 1840's was the principal disciple in the U. S. of the French Sociologist (François) Charles Marie Fourier...
...must control population. . . . We are forced to a choice. Nature's remedies are pestilence, war, disease and famine. Personally I prefer to substitute the more human method to the cruel natural process." -Henry Pratt Fairchild, New York University sociologist...
...Coste and Maurice Bellonte. He has approved Government help given to scientific institutions, Smithsonian Institution, etc.; in 1929 he appointed 17 delegates to the World Engineering Congress, Tokyo; he spoke at the 50th anniversary of invention of the incandescent lamp; he appointed a committee to study social trends, put Sociologist William Fielding Ogburn, University of Chicago, in charge; he plans to invite Albert Einstein to the White House...
Plumbers & Aristotle. Sociologist William Fielding Ogburn, University of Chicago chairman of President Hoover's Commission on Social Trends, had much to say about the future of civilization: "More probably in the future there will be seen fewer attempts to learn it all and more attempts to learn only a part. . . . Society of the future will be one of greater and greater change . . . morality will have no place . . . right & wrong will give way to social expediency. . . . The units of organization will be larger . . . despite the set-back occasioned by the Treaty of Versailles. . . . Democracy will not be so successfully applicable...