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...International Research Society in Creative Altruism will receive a charter of incorporation from the State of Massachusetts within the next two weeks, its organizer and executive director, Pitirim A. Sorokin, announced last night...
Harvard's Pitirim Sorokin, 66, a Russian artisan's son who became the first professor of sociology at the University of St. Petersburg and later at Harvard. Brash, brilliant young Sorokin ran away from his father at the age of nine ("My father was good man, except when he was drunk"), managed to get himself enough education to enter the University of St. Petersburg. A social revolutionary, he was arrested three times by the Czarist police, served as one of Kerensky's secretaries, was later arrested three more times by the Communists. Exiled in 1922, he soon...
...include every type of sect, cult and nationality, Sorokin is currently making plans for an International Association for the Application of Creative Altruism. Its foundation, almost an inevitability since the Center started six years ago, will merely be another step in the director's struggle toward universal recognition of love...
...Sorokin, who initiated the College's department of Sociology in 1931, is content, however, even to glance at the idea of worldwide creative altruism. His early years, spent amidst the violence and destruction of revolutionary Russia where he once waited weeks in prison expecting a Bolshevik firing squad, impressed on him how necessary a formula for peace was to the world...
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