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...further explained that in times of depression or war, when moral habits are weakened, belief in the occult increases. Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, supported this view by declaring last night that in times of disintegration of society, like the present and like the time of the decay of the Roman Empire, a growing interest in astrology is likely to be one of the manifestations of the social and cultural disintegration...
Professor Sorokin will travel to Chicago during the Christmas vacation to deliver one of the two main addresses before the General Session of the American Sociological Society. His subject is "The Challenge of the Times to the Sociologist...
Also meeting in Chicago is the American Catholic Sociologist Society, before which Professor Sorokin will speak, and the National Social Science Honor society Pi Gamma Mu to which he will talk on "Social Functions of the School and the Main Defects of the Contemporary School System...
Professor Zimmerman will preside at the Section on Rural Sociology, and in addition will deliver an address of it. Professor Sorokin is vice-president of the Pi Gamma Mu Society...
Billy Rose made good on his offer of providing scantily clad girls to test Harvard students for Professor Sorokin's Genius Test; but official Harvard conservation turned thumbs down yesterday...