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...Many a sociologist and historian used to agree with Paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn that Anglo-Saxons were God's special gift to earth. Osborn was a leading eugenist in the days when many believed that the "unfit" should be weeded out rather than cared for under public health measures which coddled weaklings, allowed them to reproduce, ultimately lead to an inferior stock. While these ideas have occasionally furnished fodder for opponents of public housing, relief, the New Deal, the only places where they are still flourishing today are Nazi Germany and Italy. Long before Henry Osborn died...
...Bishop Sheil's plan has been Chicago's smelly, run-down "back of the yards" district (subject of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle), whose packinghouse population of 65,000 is almost 95% Catholic. Fifteen months ago, with the bishop's blessing, friendly, chesty Jewish Sociologist Saul Alinsky set up a Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council. Aim: to reconcile the potentially conflicting interests of business, labor, politics and religion in a crowded, depressed industrial area. Typical Council results to date: C. I. O. leaders helping the Chamber of Commerce in its membership drive...
Organized last month with Sociologist Alinsky's aid was a similar neighborhood council at Kansas City, Kans. Another is now being formed at South St. Paul, Minn. Each council will Support itself, will get advice and technical consultants from the Industrial Areas Foundation. Protestants, Jews and Catholics are on the I. A. F. board of directors...
...Dillard a dollar goes thrice as far as in most private colleges. Tuition, room and board cost an undergraduate about $270 a year. Today Dillard has a $500,000 hospital (TIME, April 8), an able faculty (most popular: Sociologist Allison "Deepie" Davis, onetime Williams College valedictorian), a picked student body...
...fireworks would start. They never did start. Long before the end it had dawned on the delegates that there would be no debate, because no one cared to get up and contend that nurture had nothing to do with intelligence. Said the final speaker, University of Chicago's Sociologist Ernest Watson Burgess: "[The] consensus [is] that intelligence, at least as measured by the I.Q., is not a constant and that it is a resultant both of hereditary and environmental factors...