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

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anthropologist Robert Redheld, and sociologist W. Lloyd Warner, whose research projects have delved deeply into the American social system. Dr. Frank H. Knight given the high-sounding title Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciencest is recognized as one of the worldts most brilliant economists. Among the members of the Department of Educa- tion is Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, a professor of educa- tional Psychology and principal of the Sonia Shank- man Orthogenic School. Sociologist David Riesman has become recog- nized tboth in most esoteric circles and the popular presst as a penetrating analyst of the American character as well as a scholar of the hecumenicalh sort studying football, movies, and televisionl Hans J. Morgenthau and Herman Finer are both weIl-known political scientists. The Rise of the British Coal Industry, The United States and Civit- ization, and The Universities Look for Unity are, all three, books by John Ulric Nef, who is also chairman of the Committee on Social Thought. A conference on Educating the Gifted Child was held in Judd Hall during the Autumn Quartet. 400 administrators and educators were present to hear speeches on the problem and participate in discussions. Concluding the conference was an ad- dress entitled hWhy the New Concern for Educa- ting the Gifted? delivered by Clarence Faust, president of the Fund for the Advancement of Edu- cation. 26

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Dean of the Law School Levy Law William Rainey Harper said that an education in law implies a scientiftc knowledge of law and of legal and iuristic methods. These are the crys- tallization of ages of human progress. They cannot be understood in their entirety Without a clear com- prehension 0f the historic forces of which they are the product, and of the social environment with which they are in living contact. A scientiflc study of law involves the related sciences of history, eco- nomics, philosophyethe whole field of man as a social being? Born from this idea, the University of Chicago Law School beCame in 1902 an organic member of the general University community. Since that year the Law School has been progres- sing in all manners of research and development. There are programs of research in Law and the Be- havioral Sciences, Comparative Law, and consider- ations of Law-Economics. Resulting from there and similar studies have been laws and renovation in the Chicago City government, Illinois State gov- ernment, and the us. National Government. The American Bar Center, on 60th across the Midway 28