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Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, said that "the greatness of a university depends upon the men who are in it. If the University," he continued, "can afford to put up a building which would house the fields of psychology, anthropology, and sociology, so much the better, but we can go along with our present facilities...
Doubting the wisdom of setting up common facilities for psychology, sociology, and anthropology, Sorokin called the alliance of these three disciplines "incidental and accidental. They are as closely related to each other as they are to any other branch of the social sciences or the humanities," he said...
...However, Sorokin called the rule for determining the value of a department "its creativity, not its funds," citing as an example the quality of the work which the Department of Sociology has done in the past when it was smaller than today...
...Sorokin challenged the current application of the term "behavioral sciences" to history, government, economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. "The term," he said, "is a misnomer, and it can rightly be applied to any form of human knowledge...
Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, said that "McCarthy is causing more harm to American democracy than all the Communists put together." The same sentiment was expressed by George Sarton, professor emeritus of the History of Science. "McCarthy deserves the worst kind of censure," he stated...