Word: sorokin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undoubtedly with an answer to these questions, the Vagabond will be better equipped to decide present issues. And that is why he is going to Emerson 211 at nine o'clock tomorrow morning to hear Professor Sorokin lecture on the "Sociology...
Father O'Leary's most sensational speaker was Harvard's White Russian Sociologist Pitirim A. Sorokin, who declared that no aspect of modern culture had increased man's happiness. Stormed he: "The 20th Century has been the bloodiest. . . . Our contemporary art mortalizes the immortals . . . is sexually crazy and often sadistic. The We Kiss and Angels Sing, Heaven Can Wait and This Is Paradise of the crooners are examples. . . . Contemporary art . . . is centred around the police morgue, a criminal's hideout or the sex organs...
...Sorokin defends the institution of assistant professor as "a bridge for the most promising young scholars," and says. "I am glad that--President Conant decided not to abolish entirely the category of assistant professor...
Professor Sorokin pointed out that the professors who were on the Committee were hard on the lower ranks. "The report did not at all reduce the salaries of the full professors, especi- ally the and reporting them and twelve thousand a year, and quite sharply reduced the salaries of the lower ranks," he said...
Referring to the exodus of instructors, Professor Sorokin says "the better scholars have better chances to receive offers from outside and when they are convinced that the situation after three or five years would be cut down at Harvard, they naturally go to other institutions. Less capable scholars have much less chance to receive an offer and respectively they would remain with us and step by step would supplement more and more the better scholars...