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INVESTIGATIONS IN PROGRESS—1928-1929
1. Bibliography of Southern History Since 1865, by Dumas Malone, Professor
of History, and Lester J. Cappon, Research Associate in History.—A critical
bibliography of the literature of southern history since the Civil War which includes
a survey chiefly of official publications of federal and state governments
newspapers and periodicals.
2. The Government of the Virginia County, by Wylie Kilpatrick, Research
Professor of Government.—An analysis of the county mechanism as an administrative
organization and as a political agency, the functions performed separately
or concurrently with associated units, historical antecedents, the personnel problem,
legislation at county seats and State capitol, and the adaptation of local
rural areas to public needs.
3. Labor in the South, by Abraham Berglund, Professor of Commerce,
G. T. Starnes, Associate Professor of Commerce and Business Administration,
and Frank T. de Vyver, Research Assistant in Labor Problems.—A study of the
wage-earning classes of the South and their living conditions and problems, labor
laws and labor movements.
4. Currency, Credit and Crises in Virginia Since 1860, by Alvis Kincaid,
Professor of Commerce and Business Administration, and Taylor Musser, Research
Associate in Finance.—A study of the financial reconstruction in the State to
ascertain just where the credit institutions of Virginia stand today and the processes
by which they arrived at their present status.
5. Criminal Justice in Virginia, by Armistead Dobie, Professor of Law, and
Hugh N. Fuller, Associate Research Professor of Criminal Procedure.—A study
of the criminal situation in Virginia which will be done as a part of a wide movement
now on to work out the causes of the so-called crime wave and the available
remedies in the light of these facts.
6. Insurance in Virginia, by C. N. Hulvey, Associate Professor of Commercial
Law, and William H. Wandel, Research Assistant in Insurance.—A comprehensive
survey of each field of insurance, and a statistical study of the economic
and social effects of insurance on the State.
7. Community Studies, by Floyd N. House, Professor of Sociology, in cooperation
with the Co-operative Education Association of Virginia.—An intensive
survey of several typical communities which is expected to develop later into a
regional study of the State.
8. A History of Philosophy, by Albert G. A. Balz, Professor of Philosophy.
9. Comparative Rural and Urban Standards of Living in Virginia, by Wilson
Gee, Professor of Rural Economics and Rural Sociology, and William H.
Stouffer, Associate Research Professor of Rural Social Economics.—A comparative
analysis of living standards among representative urban and rural groups in Virginia
to ascertain whether there are wide differences between these groups and,
if so, in what measure the variations occur. The accomplishment and status of
children from these groups will be studied and a picture drawn of the social
environment and outlook of each group.
10. Regionalism in France, by Robert K. Gooch, Professor of Political
Science.—A study of the French method of decentralizing government, with
emphasis on two fundamental problems: (1) the relationship of the executive and
the legislature in the central government, and (2) the relationship of the government
of localities to the central government.
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