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Before me lies the latest issue of the "Harvard Guardian," as chock-full as its prodecessors with exciting stuff. The leading feature of this issue is "Sorokin and the Dangerous Science. It consists of three articles by distinguished members of the faculty, discussing the three volumes of Professor Sorokin's "magnum opus...
None of them liked what they road, but they say it in different ways. A. P. Usher, learned historian of our economic past believes that the structure and purpose of Sorokin are more significantly displayed by Volume II. The editors evidently agreed, and hence put his article first...
...personal impression is that the first two hundred pages of Sorokin's first volume contain the decisive argument, but D. W. Prall thinks so little of that volume that we might well summarize his tortuous arguments in the good old American phrase...
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS (3 Vols.)-Pitirim A. Sorokin - American Book ($15). Herculean survey of world cultural changes in the last 2,500 years. An attempt by a Harvard sociologist, supported by data of 20 U. S. and European researchers, to invalidate and replace the revolutionary theories of Karl Marx, Spengler's gloomy outlook for Western civilization...
...question of a sponsor assumes great importance. The Yale football team has already bagged the Atlantic Refining Company, and Harvard professors can not do less. General Motors would be a happy choice, and Professor Sorokin could supply the running comment. There is danger in allowing professionalism to capture the University too completely. The whole program should be run as an amateur hour. Listeners in each city could telephone their choices to a central office or telegraph direct to Cambridge. Each week's winner should get a free trip to New York and a three day contract at the Radio City...