Word: surveyals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...absence of a U. S. counterpart to the university-trained British Civil Service. After accepting the gift of Gloveman Littauer, who once sat in Congress (1897-1907), Chemist Conant appointed a steering committee headed by Princeton's public-spirited President Harold Willis Dodds to engage in a preliminary survey. Since March the committee has been conferring privately with Government bigwigs, including Secretaries Wallace and Morgenthau. These and similar "exploratory sessions" will be all the gradually assembling faculty of the Littauer School will conduct until it is opened to students in the fall of 1938. By that time it will...
Colonel C. H. Birdseye, chief of the Division of Engraving and Printing of the U. S. Geological Survey, will give an illustrated lecture tomorrow evening on "Acrophotography in Federal Government Mapping" at the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration at 8 o'clock...
Harvard was generously included in the group, and it is understood that Colonel Apted, a couple of deans, and several Fellows are now battling for the honor of conducting the survey here. Members of the Maintenance department and their families are excluded from the polling...
...have not had previous training in Greek are advised not to enter this field since Greek G the elementary course, though well given, is dull and difficult. Greek 12 and Greek 8 are recommended as good preparation for divisionals. Greek B, although suffering from the common defects of all survey courses, provides ample coverage of Plato and the Lyric poets...