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Peaks of Excellence. Under its young (33) director, Sociologist John E. Ivey Jr., the program has invaded every aspect of higher education. Today, 14 states belong to it, and each year hundreds of students who cannot get the training they need in their own states apply to it for help. If the board accepts a student, it can assign him to a school in another state. The student's home legislature foots the bill: $1,500 a year for medical and dental students, $1,000 for veterinarians, $750 for nurses and social workers...
CONTENTS: The newest of the Gen Ed courses, Social Sciences 5 studies "change and continuity in European history." It examines history with the tools of the social scientist, the political scientist, the economist, and the sociologist...
...good analysis of the curriculum advocated by Dewey's followers, Author Kuhn quoted the opinion of British Socialist Harold Laski. Commenting on the educational theories of Sociologist Harold Rugg and other progressive educators at Columbia in the early 1930s, Laski said: "Stripped of its carefully neutral phrases, the report is an educational program for a socialist America. It could be implemented in a society only where socialism was the accepted way of life; for it is a direct criticism of the ideas that have shaped capitalistic America...
Died. Dr. Louis Wirth, 54, University of Chicago sociologist, who regarded the modern big city as one of the sorriest products of civilization, once said: "We will either master this ominously complicated entity or perish under it"; of a heart attack; in Buffalo...
...most rewarding aspects of concentrating in Soc. Rel. is association with the department's faculty. Some of the leading social scientists in the country are on the staff. Chairman Talcott Parsons is probably America's foremost sociologist, and Samuel Stouffer, Henry Murray, Gordon Allport, and Clyde Kluckhohn are chief figures in world social science research...