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...International Research Society in Creative Altruism will receive a charter of incorporation from the State of Massachusetts within the next two weeks, its organizer and executive director, Pitirim A. Sorokin, announced last night...
Harvard's Pitirim Sorokin, 66, a Russian artisan's son who became the first professor of sociology at the University of St. Petersburg and later at Harvard. Brash, brilliant young Sorokin ran away from his father at the age of nine ("My father was good man, except when he was drunk"), managed to get himself enough education to enter the University of St. Petersburg. A social revolutionary, he was arrested three times by the Czarist police, served as one of Kerensky's secretaries, was later arrested three more times by the Communists. Exiled in 1922, he soon...
Love, in fact, altruistically speaking, may some day be the only possible prescription to save a suicidal world, according to Research Center Director Pitirim A. Sorokin. With this idea as a starting point, Sorokin has developed his novel Center by applying the customary scientific and analytic approach to Love. His goal, of course, is still as vague as the word Love itself. The Center annually spends $15,000 of its extended endowment, but has no far been only able to demonstrate what it initially assumed...
...Pitirim A. Sorokin, Director of the University Research Center in Creative Altruism, yesterday announced a plan to organize an Association for the Application of Creative Altruism (AACA) on an international scale...
...Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Sociology Department from 1931 to 1944, will retire on August 31, the University announced yesterday. He will continue to direct the University Research Center in Creative Altruism which he founded...