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Billy Rose, famous international showman, this Friday offered the services of six of the most beautiful girls from his Diamond Hersoshoe nightclub in New York to be used in putting into practice the new plan of admission to Harvard recently set forth by Pitirim A. Sorokin, Professor of Sociology...
...Sorokin's idea was that applicants for admission to Harvard should be surrounded by beautiful, scantily clad females reclining on sofas, and, if they were able to resist the temptation, they would be granted admission. Mr. Rose, in telling of the girl's unselfish offer, said, "The girls are quite willing to sacrifice themselves for the worthy cause of science...
Claiming that American colleges and universities pay far too much attention to the intellectual aspect of the student, and far too little to his morals and character, Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin stated his conception of an ideal college for the development of both to a recent Soc. A class...
...would consist of having hundreds of beautiful chorus girls, scantily clothed, lounging around the Yard, beside tables of delectable edibles. Any prospective student who possessed the moral character to withstand the seductive charms of both the women and food for three days would then be eligible to attend the Sorokin Academy; provided that he was also a mental genius...
...student "shall obey his teacher. . . shall care for him, feed him, and put him to bed after washing his teacher's feet. The student shall avoid honey, meat, sleep in the daytime. . . shoes, love, anger, and the gaze and touch of women." His bed, according to Spartan Sorokin, must be a plank, and during his years in training he shall not see a woman, for "women make men soft...