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...spite of all that can be done certain departments are at times in the ascendency, while others seem on the down grade. Yet the general level at Harvard remains high, and the Sorokin appointment furnishes proof that Harvard is not asleep to her most vital need, good teachers...
...what about the credit side of the book? Today comes the announcement that Professor Sorokin, late of the University of Minnesota, comes to Harvard as professor of sociology. In his particular field there is no more brilliant name. A distinguished author on sociological subjects, he has printed his works both in Russia and in the United States, and he is internationally recognized as an authority and scholar of sociological problems relating to rural populations. His presence in Cambridge adds another notable name to the Harvard faculty...
Dispatches from the University of Minnesota rumor the appointment of Professor Pitirim Sorokin of that institution to a position as Professor of Sociology at Harvard. It was learned last night from unofficial sources that Professor Sorokin's name has been under consideration for a position in the Department of Economics here, but that no final official action is likely to be taken on the matter until the close of this month...
Professor Sorokin has already handed in his resignation from the Western University where he has been a member of the Sociology Department for the past three years, the resignation taking effect at the end of the present academic year. If he is appointed to the Harvard faculty, Professor Sorokin will come to the University next fall to teach Sociology under the department of Economics...
Born in Vologda Province, Russia, in 1889. Professor Sorokin has spend most of his life in Europe, until 1922, when he was exiled from his country by the Soviet government, because of literature which he had published. Educated at the Teachers College and Psycho-Neurological Institute in St. Peters burg, and also at the University of St. Petersburg, he received the degrees of Doctor of Sociology and Master of Criminal...