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...Social Classes and Social Duties" was the subject of the third lecture in the Radcliffe Endowment Fund series given yesterday afternoon at the New Lecture Hall by Professor F. W. Taussig...
Professor Taussig declared that the present social stratification started very early in history and has always been existent since. "There are two radically different explanations of this condition", he said. "The aristocratic view is the doctrine of superiority, the idea that there are inborn differences between the classes of society. The democratic view, the doctrine of privilege, is that the difference is caused by a difference in environment and education...
Professor Taussig stated that there were three modes of approach to the problem: by statistics, by experimental psychology, and by biology. The statistical mode has been tried twice on a large scale, the speaker declared. These experiments had exactly the same results, but they were interpreted in directly opposite ways by the two experimenters...
...Social Classes and Social Duties" will be the subject of a lecture by Professor F. W. Taussig '79 in the New Lecture Hall at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. This will be the third of a series of eight Monday afternoon lectures being conducted for the benefit of the Radcliffe Endowment Fund...
Professor Taussig became an instructor in the University in 1882 and in 1892 was made professor of political economy. He is now the Henry Lee Professor of Economics...