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Henry Smith Pritchett Information (306 words) |
 | Henry Smith Pritchett (April 16 1857 – August 28 1939) was a U.S. astronomer and educator. |
| Pritchett was born in Fayette, MO, and attended Pritchett College (of Glasgow, MO) receiving the A.B. in 1875. |
| Pritchett Lounge, on the second floor of Walker Memorial at MIT is named in his honor. |
| Redeeming Reason (7269 words) |
| Pritchett argued that denominational influences on colleges made for unsound education, encouraged the existence of too many small schools, were institutionally inefficient, and compromised the public good. |
| Emile Durkheim and Adam Smith are famous for their studies of the process of economic specialization. |
| Adam Smith was particularly enthusiastic about this process, which Durkheim called the "division of labor", because he saw in it the means for dramatic economic progress, as described in his well known book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). |
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