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In the early 1950s, a young Harvard professor named Henry Kissinger approached the FBI with alleged evidence of communist subversion among the foreign students of his summer seminar. His evidence was a flyer criticizing the nuclear arms build-up and promoting world peace. At the same time at Yale, young William F. Buckley, Jr., was discovering more than God while writing God and Man at Yale as an undergraduate. He was discovering J. Edgar Hoover. These are just two examples of how ambitious young men used the "special relationship" developing between the FBI and the universities to advance their fledgling careers. Revelations such as these abound in Sigmund Diamond's Compromised Campus, an eye-opening look at the role American intelligence agencies played at some of America's most prestigious universities. It is often said that in the 1950s, American universities were free of the McCarthyism that pervaded the rest of the nation. Not so, says Diamond. Using previously secret materials newly made available under the Freedom of Information Act, and an impressive amount of information gained from years of research in university and foundation archives, he reveals that despite academia's "official story" of autonomy from the federal government, in fact university administrators, faculty, and students secretly and actively sought close ties with intelligence agencies. Diamond describes the cooperation of Harvard President James B. Conant with intelligence agencies, the institution and operation of Harvard's Russian Research Center, Yale's shadowy "liaison agent" H.B. Fisher, who moved from problems of student drinking to cooperation with the FBI in loyalty-security matters, and the existence of formal and informal relations with the FBI and other intelligence agencies at major universities throughout the country. He calls attention to the cooperation

The story is told that Dean Donham of the Harvard Business School once asked Professor Schumpeter, after a lecture on the entrepreneur—Schumpeter's plumed knight of economic development–what was the most important single factor in accounting for the success of the businessman. Quick as a shot came the answer: "Good health." For purposes of this inquiry into certain aspects of American social structure and American values which seem to have been of decisive importance in contributing to American economic growth, certain variables–like the health of the businessman and the endowment of the country with respect to natural resources –will not be considered.

An inquiry into the history of the use of the questionnaire for the purpose of eliciting opinion, rather than information. Examples are drawn from the history of France, GB, & the US, & a special examination is made of 18th & 19th cent al's on educ & immigration, comparing them with contemporary sociol'al surveys of the same phenomena. A discussion follows of: (1) the diff's between `pre-sci'fic' & 'sci'fic' questionaires; (2) the possibility that conventions of a temporal character give a 'bias' to R's' answers; & (3) the possibility that the attempt to achieve statistical comparability in the analysis of questionaires reduces our ability to draw inferences about the psychol of R's. AA.

Les historiens se sont rarement rendu compte que les grandes aventures colonisatrices des XVIe et XVIIe siècles ont été, en fait, autant d'expériences de créations de sociétés, autant de tentatives pour établir, ordonner des relations sociales, d'après certaines conceptions, au vrai plus ou moins élaborées, de ce que devait, ou pouvait être une société. Tout se passe comme si, envoûtés par le spectacle des événements de la première colonisation — ces mélanges de peuples et de cultures, ces conflits politiques provoqués par le transfert de la civilisation au Nouveau Monde, nous oubliions que la connaissance historique peut servir à la solution de problèmes dont l'importance est actuelle, pratique autant que théorique.