University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Down Classics? steps from the library The Oriental Institute Modern Library Introduction :0 Aristotle, a book which is used in at least four of the undergraduate courses. Elder Olson, a professor of English, has pub- lished in the past few years a comprehensive study of the poetry of Dylan Thomas, and a book of his own poems called The Scarecrow Christ. Another member of the English Department, Richard G. Stern, has had several of his short stories published in magazines. Leland Smith, a member of the Department of Music, can count among his compositions a sym- phony and a musical setting for e. e. cummingsi morality play, Santa. Claus. During this Year he received the $1000 William and Noma Copley Foundation award for distinguished accomplish- ment in the held of music. Besides the Ideas and Methodsii Committee, there are six other interdepartmental or interdivi- sional committees: General Studies in the Humani- ties, Comparative Studies in Literature, History of Culture, Far Eastern Civilizations, Archeological Studies, and Medieval Studies. 23

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Social Sciences Dean of the Social Sciences, Chauncey Harris It has been said that a characreristic of an age of turmoil is an extensive quantity of social analysis. In this age, surely one of turmoil, there has been a development of serious social thinking, coupled with the insight-research method of the sciences, producing a body of intellectual investigation ap- proximated by the term social science. The So- cial Sciences Division of the University is concerned generally with problems of the nature of the hu- man being, his ideas and institutions, the complex relationships between him and his fellow human beings, and the nature and extent of his action and reaction to the world. The social sciences were, it may be said, many before they were one. Certain of them, such as his- tory and political science, are in some ways as old as civilization; others, such as socioiogy and psy- chology, are comparatively new pursuits. Many of these sciences are not yet crystallized suihciently to place them in any one department of knowledge, as is evidenced by the facts that the Social Science Division shares the study of hismry with the Hu- manities and the study of psychology with the Bio- logical Sciences. At a considerable advanced level in the Division one finds interdepartmental committees 0n Human Development, International Relations, and Far Eastern Civilization iwith the Humanities Divi- sionJ Among the personnel of the Division of the So- cial Sciences there is a constellation of some of the most famous thinkers of modern times. There are 25