Professor Zimmerman will set you thinking the first day about the incongruity of the administration's agricultural curtailment and the "back-to-the-farm" movement. You will be struck immediately by the insight given into the situation. But apparently, Professor Zimmerman, with that load off his chest feels that the work for the year has been done and you will soon realize that you have been treated to the only original tidbit in the course.

Unless the lectures, exceedingly informal and unprepared are changed radically this year, a man taking Sociology 8 will hear the same lecture at the conclusion of the course that he heard open it. And the lone explanation of the incompatability of curtailment and expansion.

The reading is principally from Sorokin and Zimmerman's "Principals of Rural-Urban Sociology", which, in spite of the assertions of the Sociology department, can be reproduced by any undergraduate after reading the first few pages. It is a condensed version of the three-volume "Source Book in Rural-Urban Sociology" and the contents might very well be reduced another third. The summaries at the end of each chapter, if read carefully are more than sufficient.

Those who continue in Sociology and take Sociology 3 and 18 will find much of the material repeated and indeed it has been rumored that Professor Zimmerman often neglects to change his lectures.