NEWS NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The article presents information related to academic achievements, academic appointments and several other research activities related to rural sociology in universities in the U.S. The journal "Rural sociology" has shared in the tripling of the number of majors in the graduate faculty of sociology as compared with he last semester. The enrollment in the major course in rural sociology in the first semester is 120. Dr. Alan Westerman has been added to the staff as instructor and Mr. Alan Hugg, B.A., University of Manitoba, Master of Education, Springfield, as graduate assistant. Columbia University has organized a university-wide seminar on rural life in this year considering the family farm. The staff includes an economist, an anthropologist, a historian, a psychologist, two rural sociologists, a rural educationist, and a librarian. Professor W.A. Anderson of Cornell University, has participated in the 1946 session of the American Institute of Cooperation at Purdue University, held between August 26 and 30 presenting a paper entitled "The Need for Cooperative Education."