Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question has often been raised whether the social sciences are sciences at all. Certainly they occupy a place on the fringe of the physical and biological sciences, from which they must draw much of their nourishment. "Sociology," a term coined about a century ago by the French Philosopher Auguste Comte, has been described as "the science of leftovers"-that is, a science which picks up crumbs spilled from the groaning table of the other social sciences.* But it has also been suggested that sociology be enthroned as the basic social science-a sort of central switchboard which would coordinate...
Dorgan gives as his definition of the term "the right of educators to teach the truth, not propaganda, and to inculcate sound and right principles in the minds of their subjects...
Elliot L. Richardson '41 of Winthrop House and Brookline was last night elected President of the Lampoon succeeding Edward Cameron Kirk Read '40. With the rest of the newly chosen Board, Richardson will take office after the start of the next term...
...Third Term. The Gallup Poll showed a 2.2% decline in the President's popularity. But on the third term issue the FORTUNE Survey indicated the greatest shift of public opinion that it has recorded. In its December issue, FORTUNE revealed that 47.4% of the people favor a third term, an increase of 12.5% since the war began...
...Office-holding Washingtonians began to receive their annual invitations to the Jackson Day dinner, set for next Jan. 8, grumbled their usual grumbles at the price ($100), but decided to be there in case Guest-of-Honor Franklin Roosevelt took that occasion for a third-term pronouncement...