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When in 1921 Professor James Harvey Robinson wrote approvingly of the work of Vilfredo Pareto in his The Mind in the Making, few U. S. readers had heard the name of that eminent Italian sociologist or knew what sort of ideas he had advanced in his nine fat volumes. Widely recognized in Europe as a social scientist of great originality and erudition, as a vigorous commentator on world affairs in French and Italian newspapers, as professor of political economy at the University of Lausanne, Pareto's transatlantic reputation grew slowly after his death in 1923 and was almost entirely...
...ailing, announced he would retire in June 1935. Two years ago everyone believed that Dr. Russell C. Atkins, director of the Institute's Agricultural Department, was being groomed to succeed him. One night a Negro lunatic murdered Dr. Atkins. The trustees turned their thoughts to others: Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson of the Rosenwald Foundation; Channing Tobias, Y. M. C. A. worker; President Claude A. Barnett of the Associated Negro Press; Emmett Jay Scott, Secretary-Treasurer of Howard University. Once they offered the job to President Benjamin F. Hubert of Georgia State Industrial College but Dr. Hubert considered...
Furthermore, it is a mistake to call English 5 simply "an advanced composition course." To participate in its activities one must be not only able to write moderately well, but one must also be a philosopher, an historian, a critic, poet, sociologist, and politician, all in one English 5 transcends any limits that the word "composition" may try to put on it, and furnishes real food for thought, which, when digested, frequently re-appears on paper...
...Aegean Sea. Accessible to male visitors, the monks are used to being asked: "What is the purpose of your life?" They invariably reply: "What is the purpose of your life outside?" Few years ago Mount Athos had a visitor who did more than ask about purposes. A Dartmouth sociologist named Michael Choukas, he viewed the "holy mountain" as a medieval hangover, a laboratory for pure sociological research. He lived among the monks, studied their life, wrote a book. Black Angels of Athos, which was lately published...
...last week to publish a monthly magazine called The Social Frontier. Besides sonorous editorials on its Cause, the first issue contained several readable articles by sympathetic oldsters. Venerable, profound Philosopher John Dewey began a discussion of Education and Social Reconstruction with a quotation from Amos 'n' Andy. Sociologist Henry Pratt Fairchild thwacked the New Deal - for its conservatism. Historian Charles Austin Beard urged a democratic distribution of property. Editor of The Social Frontier and spearhead of the whole movement for a New Order through Education is George Sylvester Counts, 44, Professor of Education at Teachers College...