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...this was not the only sacrifice. Three prominent University personalities are also giving a couple of hours to the grueling decision. Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government; Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Social Relations; and Ira O. Scott, Leverett House associate tutor. Beer, an expert on parliamentary structures and recently returned from England, is expected to bring a European outlook to the judging. Sorokin is the director of the Institute of Creative Altruism. Scott will represent the Leverett taste...
...Economics; Stephen J. Healey, III, Newton, Biology; Jordan Joseph, Roxbury, Biochemical Sciences; Kent W. Frederickson, Saugus, English; Lyman E. Sproul, Jr., Saugus, Biology; John T. Bethell, South Essex, English; Jonathan Ketchum, South Natick, Music; Michael C. J. Putnam, Springfield, Classics; David S. Feingold, West Newton, Biochemical Sciences; Sorgel P. Sorokin, Winchester, Biology; Donald R. Whitehead, Wollaston, Biology...
Throughout the hardships that political activity caused in those times, Sorokin miraculously managed to pursue his studies in sociology. He was a prolific writer, and long before coming to the United States, had published several texts on the subject. In 1923 he came to this country with an invitation to teach at the University of Minnesota. Eight years later, President Lowell asked him to form the first Sociology Department at Harvard. The University had possessed a grant for such a department since 1906, and officials felt that in Sorokin, they at last had a man who could...
...chairman of the new department, lasted fourteen years. Professor Sorokin was only too glad to end what he calls his "Roosevelt term" and devote his time to a project he had long considered. A witness to the revolutions in Russia and two world wars, he had lived with violence and always opposed it. In his mind, the one hope for civilization was the development of man's creative over his destructive impulses. To study the problem, he has established the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism...
...Sorokin tackles his new work with the vigor of the young revolutionary who debated with Lenin and Trotsky. He has never lost the ability to support a cause he believes in, and does so in characteristically strong language. To his long list of writings, most of which have been translated into other languages, he has added several new volumes on altruism. Pointing proudly to a bulky, orange book on his desk, he remarked, "They are even writing books about my books...