Correspondence includes letters to Igor I. Sikorsky, James Houston Shrader, F. S. C. Northrop; Henry Margenau; F. L. Kunz, and Walter H. Clark inviting them to attend a meeting with Dean Bowditch February 6, 1956 to discuss the problems of...
Administration; Social behavior; Sorokin, Pitirim A.; Constitution; Correspondence; Love; Sociology
Administration files of the Research Society for Creative Altruism including the first meeting minutes of the Society October 29, 1955; invitation letters to attend the first organized conference for the new association for a study and application...
Constitution; Sociology; Social behavior; Administration
Administration files of the Research Center for Creative Altruism; outlines of proposed constitution for the Research Society for Creative Altruism; reply letters from Walter Houston Clark, Arnold A. Lasker, Daniel L. Marsh and J. H. Shrader...
Sorokin, Pitirim A.; Values; Human behavior; Sociology; Altruism; Research; Society and education; Concepts; Spiritual life; Social institutions and social change; Organizations
Confidential draft proposal for the Research Society for Creative Altruism into the "Center for the Study of Human Values". The report outlines the structure, purpose; 10 areas of concern, management and important goals to be reached; a document...
According to Wendell Thomas, "In view of two world wars and the possibility of a third in which the human race might suffer annihilation, the familiar notion of progress as an escalator is being anxiously reconsidered. New concepts of progress have...
Sociology; Sorokin, Pitirim A.; Cognition and culture
At a symposium held at Syracuse University on creavitiy and psychological health, Sorokin discusses the general theory of creativity. 1) Working definitions of creative activity; 2) Creative inequality of individuals and groups; 3) Fluctuation of...
This letter is from the Florence Kirk collection at the University of Regina Archives and Special Collections. Kirk spent 18 years teaching English at Ginling College in Nanking (Nanjing), China. In Nanjing Kirk was witness to both the Japanese...
Excerpts from the magazine Christmas in Regina, from 1919. The magazine refers to the Christmas of 1919 as "the Peace Christmas", and celebrated in part the end of World War I. Relevant articles include: The Christmas of Peace; Greetings from...
•patriotism
•Second World War
•home front
•Saskatoon
Abstract
In the last decade historians have focused greater attention on the Canadian home front during the Second World War. This increased scrutiny has led to studies of not only the war’s impact on the nation at large, but also on specific...
File includes clippings regarding altruism ; Harvard Research Centre in Altruistic Integration and Creativity; and Research Society for Creative Altruism and letters between Dienner and Dr. J.C. Salk regarding Sorokin's work. Correspondence...
Correspondence between Sorokin and Hart regarding various published works; two articles by Hornell Hart, "Sorokin and Sensate Civilization" and "A Memorandum on "Creative Discussion"
Correspondence from Harman requesting a meeting to discuss work being done at the Research Center for Creative Altruism; Sequoia Seminar requesting an associate membership to the Research Society for Creative Altruism; the investigation of certain...
Receipts for money gifts transferred from Arts and Science to the Research Center for Creative Altruism ; copies of letters sent by Sorokin to Eugene G. Kraetzer, Jr. assistant secretary to the president of Harvard University containing checks
12 enclosures (notices re: workshops, courses, conferences, and
1 ectures; functional and organizational chart of the Foundation;
and F.L. Kunz's "The role of a biological field theory i n education"
and "The cultural constitution of man")]...
Hiebert, Paul, 1892-1987; Canadian literature--20th century; Satire, Canadian;
Typescript copy (140 pages) of Sarah Binks that went to publisher. This book was first published in 1947, and it is based on some hundred poems supposedly written by Sarah Binks, "The Sweet Songstress of Saskatchewan."
Hiebert, Paul, 1892-1987; Canadian literature--20th century; Satire, Canadian;
typescript copy (186 pages). This book was published in 1967, and it examines the followers of Sarah who made up the poetic school of seven-and-a-half in Saskatchewan
New Veterans' Home located at 2109 Preston Avenue opened in 1965, with exterior and interior views (including dedication plaque to Harry F. Jones, M.P.). Also an exterior view of the old Veterans' home at the airport that was used prior to opening...
