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Speaking first on the program, Professor Usher developed Hayek's basic antithesis between that society which sets up a definite, unflexible end toward which it must constantly strive, and that society which recognizes a multiplicity of ends...
...Yalta nor Dumbarton Oaks nor any other agreement-can give us lasting peace so long as the corpse of the capitalist economy continues to exist." Thus declared Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, speaking last night together with Wassily W. Leontief, associate professor of Economics, and Abbott P. Usher '04, professor of Economics, on the topic "Is the planned economy 'the Road to Serfdom'?" at the first forum of the newly-organized Harvard Political Science Forum...
...Usher Defends Hayek's Ideas...
Sharing the platform in the Lowell House Junior Common Room Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock will be Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Wassily W. Leontief, associate professor of Economics, and Abbott P. Usher, professor of Economics...
...usher's job is to put the buyers [congregation] in a receptive mood for the supersalesman in the pulpit to work on. . . . We don't like the hale & hearty traveling salesman's greeting." But at the other evil extreme is the cold-shoulder church. "There must be no distracting influences [from the service]. A good usher asks himself: 'Is the sidewalk clean? Are the steps clear of snow and ice? Are the lights too bright? . . . How is the heat?' Heat makes or mars a service. If we see somebody nodding, we check the heat before...