ABSTRACT
The fortunate workers who profit immediately by the opportunities will promote the efforts of their colleagues wherever research in the social sciences is going forward. To one who was himself trained for research in a social science at the University of Chicago, the occasion has a heightened interest. From Thorstein Veblen's philosophic view of social institutions and social theories a straight path led to John Dewey's lectures. There the student interested in any phase of human behavior heard a master of philosophy and psychology analyze the processes involved in activities, from dealing with a broken shoestring to constructing a system of metaphysics. Demographers, anthropologists, and biologists had adopted mathematical methods in the analysis of their own observations upon living objects, from plants to human bodies. It seemed a relatively simple matter to borrow the tools thus forged by others for use in the social sciences.
