Reminiscences of Morris Janowitz: oral history, 1984.

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Reminiscences of Morris Janowitz: oral history, 1984.

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discussion of projects at University of Chicago sponsored by the Spencer Foundation including a study of the education of the military and a project on the value of sociology; other topics covered are modern patriotism, comparison of educational and military systems, and the future of public education in the country.

Transcript: 28 leaves.Tape: 1 cassette.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Kranz, Bella

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Spencer Foundation

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Janowitz, Morris.

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Sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Morris Janowitz: oral history, 1984. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481748 Morris Janowitz was born on October 22nd, 1919 (Died November 7th, 1988), and grew up in Paterson, New Jersey. After graduating from Eastside High School and New York University with a Journalism degree, Morris entered the service in 1943. There he was commissioned by the Office of Strategic Services while wit...