Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloomy about the teacher shortage (TIME, March 29) was Columbia University's educational sociologist Willard W. Waller. For a generation after World War II, thought he, the U.S. might get even worse education than after World War I.-His facts: "More than 2,000 schools, mostly in rural areas, failed to open [last fall]. There was a shortage of at least 75,000 teachers in the nation at large . . . 2,000,000 children were receiving an education below the standards considered acceptable a year before. . . . Normal School enrollments have fallen off sharply, which is an indication that the shortage...
...Gentle, affable, pink-eyebrowed Oswald Veblen (nephew of the late great economist-sociologist Thorstein Bunde Veblen) is doing a war job for the Government, having temporarily ceased working on spinors. Asked for a simple, lay definition of spinors, the mathematician shrugged and smiled. He has left behind topology, which he defines simply as "the theory of the properties of a body which are unchanged when you make any continuous deformation...
...gangs almost any where, had got out of hand: they had robbed and used their knives on some lone sailors on dark side streets. But probably the trouble could have been ended right there. One who thought so was Eduardo Quevedo, a plump, cigar-chewing, shock-headed amateur sociologist, president of the Coordinating Council for Latin Americans, member of the Citizens' Committee on Latin American youth...
...Some members of the commission, headed by John Foster Dulles, Manhattan lawyer and counsel to the American Commission to the Paris Peace Conference: Philosopher William Ernest Hocking, Yale Divinity School's Dean Luther A. Weigle, Sociologist Pitirim A. Sorokin, the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick...
...administrative problems that would have to be solved in order that the program meet success will be taken up by Lambie while Parsons will consider the lasting effects of such a plan on the nation from the viewpoint of a sociologist...