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...knew him well were sure he would not have taken the job without an understanding with his Commander in Chief that he was to be no mere military adviser. And his appointment would immediately have one important effect: the services would hear less of military strategy from Sociologist Harry Hopkins...
...talked like a farmer, waved his long arms in sweeping gestures at a group of pedagogues in Chapel Hill, N.C. last week. They had come from all over the South to survey the South's next decade with the speaker, the University of North Carolina's famed Sociologist Howard Washington Odum. Surrounded by charts, maps and graphs representing mountains of facts collected by himself, Dr. Odum exhorted the teachers to make their schools centers of research in local problems, put their students to work, community by community, on the enrichment of the South...
When Georgia-born Sociologist Odum began collecting facts at North Carolina 22 years ago, many Southerners took umbrage at any suggestion for improvement of the South's backward economy. Dr. Odum made no suggestions; he just went on laboriously piling up his facts. He turned up some whopping ones: e.g., with much of the richest soil in the U.S., the Southeast spent 7% of its gross income for commercial fertilizer, almost as much as it spent on education (it bought two-thirds of all the fertilizer used in the nation). Reason: its cash-crop, soil-consuming system (cotton...
...York-born Lewis Mumford is no intellectual opportunist. He was long a disciple of the late Sir Patrick Geddes, the sociologist-biologist-philosopher who gave him his enthusiasm for sound city planning. A self-styled "basic communist," Mumford disapproved of Marxists but writhed when he was called a "liberal." A man of parts, he wrote excellent architectural criticism for The New Yorker, lectured at Columbia, Dartmouth and Harvard, got himself denounced as "a sublimated recruiting officer" when he called for a U.S. break with Germany, Italy and Japan...
...case of love at first sight; from the day he entered Sumner's class he began to prepare to follow in the great man's steps, meekly bore Sumner's pronouncements on his habits, studies, marriage (Sumner was against it). Keller became as great a sociologist and anthropologist as Sumner, learned ten of Sumner's 13 languages (bogging down only on Hebrew, Russian, Polish...