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Officers of the Committee this year are Charles J. Bullock, Chairman, Professor of Economics; William S. Ferguson, Professor of Ancient and Modern History; Edwin F. Gay, Professor of Economics, History; Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government; and Pitirim A. Sorokin, Professor of Sociology. Mrs. Elizabeth W. Gilboy is Secretary of the Committee and is in charge of he statistical laboratory...
...reading is principally from Sorokin and Zimmerman's "Principals of Rural-Urban Sociology", which, in spite of the assertions of the Sociology department, can be reproduced by any undergraduate after reading the first few pages. It is a condensed version of the three-volume "Source Book in Rural-Urban Sociology" and the contents might very well be reduced another third. The summaries at the end of each chapter, if read carefully are more than sufficient...
...lectures are given twice a week by Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin, and while they are by no means brilliant, Professor Sorokin's foreign accent and eccentric idiosyncrasies often make them both absorbing and amusing. The fact that Professor Sorokin appears to be a real scholar also adds interest. To the student who has no liking for philosophy, or for ideas connoted by such phrases as "intergroup antagonisms, tensions, conflicts," "artistic mentality of a people," "social stratification," unconscious social control," and so forth ad infinitum, the course, and especially the lectures, will be a frightful bore...
...Social Changes," Professor Sorokin, Emerson...
...highlights of the program was the annual dinner held in the ballroom of the Continental Hotel at 6.30 o'clock Saturday evening. Speakers at the dinner, of which Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, was chairman, were R. M. McIver and Petirim A. Sorokin, chairman of the Department of Sociology at Harvard. Professor Sorokin, who selected "The Movement of Important Internal Disturbances in History," presented much material on the prevalence of war through the ages...