Sorokin, Pitirim A. - Manuscripts and Papers - University Library ...

Research Center; Smith's request for a report on Sorokin's published
works; Smith's request for extra copies of Sorokin's "The myster-
ious energy of love".
S-36 SMITH, F.D. [March, 1950-August, 1959. 20 i tems) Correspondence re:
Smith's request for Sorokin to help him with the matter of selecting
and defining a topic for his Ph.D. thesis; a copy of Smith's
planned study "General considerations involved in the selection of
hypothesis"; Smith's statement of conscientious objection to
American militarism; Smith's interest in studying the theatre as
an instrument of creativity; Sorokin's recommendation of Smith
secured him a teaching job at Dana Hal 1 School in Wellesley; Sorokin's
offer of a job to Smith correcting the English in his manuscript
of 500 pages; a request for Sorokin to recommend Smith for
a position in sociology at Indiana University; an offer for Smith
to be the grader of Social Relations 160 at Harvard University;
Smith's use of Sorokin's name as a reference for a Fulbright grant
to teach American literature and history in Denmark or Finland;
Sorokin's retirement from teachins duties; the expected ~ublication
of Soroki n ' s Fads and foi bl es in iodern soci 01 ogy' and rei ated
sciences; Sorokin's organization of a new international Association
for a Studv and APD~ ication of Creative A1 truism; an invitation for
Smith to bicome a' charter member of the proposed-A~c~; pub1 ication
of Smith's novel; Sorokin's acknowledgment of Smith's help in
collecting the data for Power and morality.
S-37 SMITH, J. P. [December, 1957-February, 1958. 5 i tems] Correspondence
re: a request for Sorokin's opinion of the Rudolph Steiner system
of teaching; Sorokin's opinion of Rudolph Steiner's system; Smith's
concern about the education of his children; publication of Sorokin's
Criminality of rulers.
S-38 SMITH, (Prof. ) T. L. [January, 1950-August, 1967. 86 i tems] Correspondence
re: an invitation for Sorokin to lecture at the University
of Florida; Smith's son's application for a scholarship from Harvard;
Sorokin's comments on the "similarities and dissimilarities" of some
of his own work and that of others at Harvard; publication of
Smith's The people of Latin America, Brazil: portrait of half
a continent and The sociology of urban 1 ife; Smith's editing of
the reports of the conferences "America's aging population" and
"~iving in the later years"; Sorokin's receipt of an honorary
doctorate - - from the Universitv of Mexico; Japanese translation of
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Sorokin's Reconstructio -. humanity; and DU~C~, Japanese and
German translations of Sorokin'ssis of our age; a copy of
Sorokin's The ways and power of love sent to Smith; publication
of Sorokin's "Testomani a" in Harvard educational review and "No
~ oicv l of peace as vet" in Liberation; Smith's representation of
ihe ~nternational Saciological ~ssociation at the' UNESCO meeting
on immigration; a cl i pping from El telegrafo (Guayaqui 1 , Ecuador
Smith's South American lecture tour; Smith's plans to attend the