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This article presents developments related to study and teaching of sociology in universities and colleges in the U.S. Several social scientists wish to express their support of the proposal that a branch of the Institute of Social Research, New York, be re-established at the University of Frankfort in Germany. The Institute was founded in Frankfort twenty-five years ago. For a quarter of a century its greatest service to the social sciences has been in creating a link between the emphasis on theory characteristic of older European sociology and the techniques of modern empirical research. During the years it was able to function in Frankfort, the Institute attracted students from all over the world. The Institute made available to them a staff of experts in the major branches of the social sciences and the humanities, and a library rich in materials on social theory and the history of social movements. When the National Socialists took power, the Institute's building was seized, its teachers and students persecuted and exiled. But its work was continued, thanks to the hospitality extended by the International Labor Office in Geneva, the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the Institute of Sociology in London, and Columbia University in New York.