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f V-4 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY. [November, 1949-March, 1952. 24 i tems] Correspondence
re: an invitation for Sorokin to deliver the Cole Lectures
at Vanderbil t University; Soroki n's acceptance of the invitation; a
list of Sorokin's lecture topics; a request for a photo of Sorokin;
Sorokin's question regarding the publication of the Cole Lectures
as a special volume; an invitation for Sorokin to preach at the West
End Methodist2Church; an invitation for Sorokin to address the 75th
Anniversary Convocation of the Vanderbil t School of Religion; a list
of the topics of discussion; publication of Sorokin's Social philosophies
in an age of crisis; Sorokin's honorarium for the Cole Lectures;
Sorokin's comments on Prof. W.J. Hayes' community or 'grass roots'
studies; a request for Sorokin to recommend a chairman for the
Sociology Department at Vanderbilt University; Sorokin's recommendation
of Dr. W. Firey and Prof. W. Lunden for the chairman position.
v-5 VANDERJAGT, Dr. B. G .H. [August, 1950-March, 1957. 11 i tems] Correspondence
re: Vanderjagt's comments on the education of business
students; Vanderjagt's work on a description of the fundamentals
of the normalization of costprice calculation; Vanderjagt's theories
and plans to be experimented with by the American Federation of
Labor; Sorokin's request for Vanderjagt's suggestions in studying the
energy of love; Vanderjagt's comments on his booklet Where Karl Marx
went wrong; Vanderjagt's attempt to describe God from the supposition
that imaaination is a dimension; Vanderjaqt's opinion that there
could noi be a better a1 truistic project than trying to make labor
and manangement cooperate; Vanderjagt's comments on the outline of
the Harvard Research Center; Vanderjaqt's comments on Sorokin's
The reconstruction of humanity; ~orokin's receipt of a copy of
Vanderjagt's paper "The reason of gravity and its consequences".
V-6 VAN VLOTEN, H. [February-November , 1950. 9 i terns] Correspondence
re: a request for information on the activities of the Harvard
Research Center; publication of Van Vloten's paper on the activities
of the Research Center in the Leids universiteitsblad; publication
of the Center's symposium volume Explorations in altruistic love and
behavior and Sorokin's Social philosophies of an age of crisis;
plans of Leiden University to organize a sociologica7 institute;
Van Vloten's receipt of Sorokin's Altruistic love: a study of
American good neighbors and Christian saints.
V-7 VARMA, Dr. V . P. March, 1949-March, 1955. 11 i
terns] Correspondence
re: Varma's research for his Ph.D. dissertation "Some aspects of
the social and political philosophy of the ancient Hindus"; a
long editorial about Sorokin's The reconstruction of humanit
(October, 1948) ; Varma's intention to write a systematic cri:icism
of Marxism; Sorokin's inability to procure a fellowship for Varma;
Sorokin's criticism of Varma's paper on "Irrationalism"; Varma's
questions concerning Sorokin' s Soci a1 phi losophies of an age of
crisis; pub1 ication of Varma's "Class structure and democratic
dynamics" in The Indian journal of political science; a request for