Excerpt from Sentiments and Activities: Essays in Social Science My very entrance into sociology was a matter of chance; or rather, I got into sociology because I had nothing better to do. I graduated from Harvard College in June, 1932, having concentrated academically in English literature and nonacademically in writing verse. In line with my literary interests I had decided to make myself a newspaperman. I was quite wrong; literary ability is the last thing a newspaperman needs to get ahead. But I was saved from the ...
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Excerpt from Sentiments and Activities: Essays in Social Science My very entrance into sociology was a matter of chance; or rather, I got into sociology because I had nothing better to do. I graduated from Harvard College in June, 1932, having concentrated academically in English literature and nonacademically in writing verse. In line with my literary interests I had decided to make myself a newspaperman. I was quite wrong; literary ability is the last thing a newspaperman needs to get ahead. But I was saved from the consequences of deliberate decision. Although I had gotten myself a job beginning in the fall with William Allen White of the Emporia, Kansas, Gazette, the Depression was still getting worse, and when the time came for me to go to Em poria, White wired me that the circulation of the Gazette had gone down so much that he would have to withdraw his ofier of a job. This made me, like so many others at the time, unemployed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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