Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immediate successor to Lambie has been named, but Charles R. Cherington, professor of Government, will teach Municipal Government in the fall. Other courses given by Lambie included "Topics in Local Government," "Seminar in Municipal Administration, and Management," and "Seminar on the Administrative Process...
...same time it was announced that two outstanding fine arts scholars, Millard Meiss of Columbia and Sydney J. Freedberg '36 of Wellesley, will join the faculty next year. Meiss, an expert on Italian Renaissance art, will serve as a full professor. He expects to teach during the first semester, and will devote the second half-year to museum work. Freedberg will become an associate professor, and will study on a Guggenheim fellowship next year...
...compress this vast story into a popular film biography involves a challenge that might well deter Hollywood. On a less ambitious scale-and aiming to teach as much as to entertain-the Radio and Film Commission of the U.S. Methodist Church has produced John Wesley, a 77-minute "semidocumentary" in color. Made at cost ($200,000) by Britain's J. Arthur Rank, a zealous Methodist himself, it is "for use in the churches...
...often, divinity schools teach theology without sufficiently relating it to contemporary life. While science "seeks a theoretical system which can be ... translated into practical procedures for the production of machines, goods and institutions, theology has tended to move toward the abstract and to be content with general postulates." Dr. Hartshorne applauded the introduction of such subjects as sociology and church administration into seminary classrooms, but "as things are now, these are . . . unrelated systems, each going its own way . . . We have no curriculum, but only subjects of study...
...hardships that political activity caused in those times, Sorokin miraculously managed to pursue his studies in sociology. He was a prolific writer, and long before coming to the United States, had published several texts on the subject. In 1923 he came to this country with an invitation to teach at the University of Minnesota. Eight years later, President Lowell asked him to form the first Sociology Department at Harvard. The University had possessed a grant for such a department since 1906, and officials felt that in Sorokin, they at last had a man who could...