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...Columbia sociologist has blasted college professors for their narrow culture, limited imagination, and "typically plebeian cultural interests outside the field of specialization." In his new book, "White Collar," just issued by the Oxford University Press, C. Wright Mills, associate professor of Sociology at Columbia, criticizes graduate schools for often being "organized as a 'feudal' system: the student trades his loyalty to one professor for protection against other professors...
...University of Chicago's WILLIAM F. OGBURN, 64, the top social statistician in the U.S., onetime director of research for President Hoover's Committee on Social Trends. In 40 years of teaching and research, Sociologist Ogburn has delved deep into everything from living costs to population movements and the tyranny of the machine. His plans after retiring: "I want to spend three months seeing every athletic event in Chicago, then I want to go to all the movies, then I would like to spend several years traveling-I haven't seen the Orient yet-and I want...
...Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey, a D.Sc.; to Sociologist Robert M. Maclver, an L.H.D.; to Political Scientist Charles E. Merriam, a Litt.D.; to Psychologist Edward C. Tolman, a D.Sc.; to Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Percy W. Bridgman, a D.Sc.; to Astronomer Henry Norris Russell, a D.Sc.; to Philosopher John Dewey, a Litt.D.-all from Yale University...
...which grew the autonomous Sheffield Scientific School. Gradually, Yale began to accumulate some of its brightest ornaments. There were Physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, who formulated the laws that form the basis for modern thermodynamics, Elias Loomis, who helped devise the modern weather map, Geologist James Dwight Dana, Sociologist William Graham Sumner...
Twenty-five years before Pitirim A. Sorokin came to Harvard, President Lowell made up his mind to form a Department of Sociology. An obvious prerequisite, however, was a sociologist; and not until 1931, when Sorokin appeared to deliver a few guest lectures, did Lowell find one worthy of the first chairmanship...