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...biggest noise in an empty barrel for the year," said Clifton Fadiman in the New Yorker. "He is to me like God," wrote an awestruck Freshman in the Confidential Guide poll last spring. "The world's foremost sociologist," was the opinion of a professor in a midwestern university. In panning Sorokin's book on "Social and Cultural Dynamics," Fadiman referred to Harvard's Department of Sociology as a "White Russian WPA." But Professor Sorokin, who is head of that WPA, began his career by being just as red as the rest of his intellectual, revolutionary friends. Back...
Farm & Home Week came again for the University of Wisconsin's College of Agriculture and for thousands of farmers who freewheeled into Madison. This year Art was the big news, because last year Sociologist John Barton and Painter John Steuart Curry had started something when they put on show some 60 paintings, wood carvings and whittled knickknacks created by Wisconsin farmers and their wives. This year, even after the show had opened, rustic painters from the backwoods continued to arrive, toting rolls of canvas and bits of wood. One of them, Walter Thorpe of Baraboo, Wis., shyly unrolled...
...dean of U. S. physiologists, Chicago's Anton Julius Carlson, declared that the problem of alcoholism "is too complex for any one of our biological and medical disciplines. The sociologist should be present at the start, and I imagine we will not travel very far before we ask for the aid of the genetecist and the educator. [It] . . . is going to be a labor of Hercules...
Abnormal Teetotalers. Quite a different note was sounded in the proceedings by Sociologist Jeremiah Patrick Shalloo of the University of Pennsylvania. Said he, in his hardheaded Irish...
Also meeting in Chicago is the American Catholic Sociologist Society, before which Professor Sorokin will speak, and the National Social Science Honor society Pi Gamma Mu to which he will talk on "Social Functions of the School and the Main Defects of the Contemporary School System...