**Senior Social Science Analyst.**—Three years of responsible progressive experience in professional research or in college teaching, within one or more of the following fields: Economics, agricultural economics, sociology, social research, or political science. This experience must have included the successful development of one or more scientific projects, must have demonstrated the ability to fulfill the duties as shown above and the following additional qualifications: (1) A capacity for handling increasingly difficult and important assignments; (2) outstanding ability for planning, organizing, carrying on, interpreting, and reporting upon difficult and intricate research projects within the fields of the social sciences; (3) ability to present results of involved or important investigations and in a simple and forceful manner, as shown by published evidence or verified by reference; and (4) ability to act as a consultant on a wide range of social science problems.

**Social Science Analyst.**—Two years of responsible professional experience in social science research or in college teaching within one or more of the following fields: Economics, agricultural economics, sociology, social research, or political science. Such experience must have involved the successful development of one or more scientific projects, and have demonstrated initiative and resourcefulness, the ability to meet responsibilities with success, and a capacity for handling increasingly difficult and important assignments.

**Associate Social Science Analyst.**—Applicants who qualify in education under (a) or (b) above may substitute for one year in lieu of the postgraduate study specified under (c) above, responsible professional experience in social science research or in college teaching within one or more of the following fields: Economics, agricultural economics, sociology, social research, or political science (in addition to such experience as may be required for each particular grade); provided that the year of postgraduate study required under (b) above will not also be counted as one of the years of postgraduate study specified under (c) above.

**Caution.**—For all grades at least 1 year of the required education or experience must have been obtained in the 5 years immediately preceding the date of the close of receipt of applications.

**Examinations for lower grades.**—Written examinations for the positions of Assistant Social Science Analyst and Junior Social Science Analyst at $2,600 and $2,000, respectively, are being announced simultaneously, and applicants who wish also to be considered for the assistant and junior grade positions must file a separate application for the lower grades. The examinations for assistant and junior grade positions will be assembled and applicants admitted to these two lower grade examinations will be notified when and where to appear for examination. See separate announcement for these grades.

**5. Age.**—On the date of the close of receipt of applications, applicants for the positions of Principal Social Science Analyst and Senior Social Science Analyst must not have reached their fifty-third birthday, applicants for the position of Social Science Analyst must not have reached their forty-eighth birthday, and applicants for the position of Associate Social Science Analyst must not have reached their forty-fifth birthday. These age limits do not apply to persons granted preference because of military service, except that such applicants must not have reached the retirement age.

**6. Physical ability.**—Applicants must be in sound physical health. Remediable defects or curable disease will not exclude a person from examination, but proof that such defects have been remedied, or the disease, if any, cured, must be received during the life of the eligible register before persons otherwise qualified may be considered for appointment under civil-service rules.

Persons selected for appointment will be required to pass a physical examination given by a Federal medical officer. Failure to pass such physical examination will prevent appointment.

## APPLICANTS MUST FILE THE FOLLOWING WITH THE UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., NOT LATER THAN THE CLOSING DATE SPECIFIED AT THE HEAD OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT

1. Application Form 8, properly executed, including the Officer's Certificate of Residence. Only one application form should be filed by a person wishing to apply for more than one grade in this examination. (See paragraph headed "Assignment of grade"; below).

2. Applicants who wish to claim veteran preference must file Preference Form 14 (blue), properly executed and accompanied by the documentary proof required therein.

3. Foreign-born applicants must submit with their applications proof of United States citizenship.

4. Applicants must submit with their applications their unmounted photographs, taken within 2 years, with their names written thereon. Proofs or group photographs will not be accepted. Photographs will not be returned to applicants.

5. Applicants must submit for any grade a list of any writings which they may wish to offer as corroborative evidence of their qualifications. For each writing listed a brief, concise digest of its contents must be included. If an applicant is coauthor, his or her individual contribution must be indicated. The applicant must submit a copy of one of his writings. If the applicant is placed on one or more registers the copy of his writing will be retained by the Civil Service Commission as long as he is on the register, or registers.

**Proof of education.**—Applicants may be required to present proof of the successful completion of the college courses prescribed. Proof will be requested by the Commission, if required.

**Assignment of grade.**—Applicants for the higher grades who are found not qualified therefor will be considered for the lower grades. Persons who are found eligible for the higher grades will also be rated for each of the lower grades provided they are otherwise eligible.

**Certification.**—If vacancies occur in the field service, certification will be made of the highest eligibles on the appropriate register from the entire country who have not expressed unwillingness to accept appointment where the vacancy exists, except that certification may be restricted to the State or group of States in which the vacancy exists, provided that satisfactory evidence is presented to the Commission showing that the needs of the service will be better met by such restricted certification. The department or office requesting certification of eligibles has the legal right to specify the sex desired.

**Fingerprints.**—Fingerprints will be taken of all persons appointed from these examinations.

**Application forms.**—The necessary forms may be obtained from the Secretary, Board of United States Civil Service Examiners, at any first-class post office, from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., or from the United States Civil Service district office at any of the cities given below (the title of the examination desired should be stated):

Atlanta, Ga., New Post Office Building.
Boston, Mass., Post Office and Courthouse Building.

Chicago, Ill. New Post Office Building.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Post Office Building.

Denver, Colo., Post Office Building.

New Orleans, La., Customhouse.

THE EXACT TITLE OF THE EXAMINATION DESIRED, AS GIVEN AT THE HEAD OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, SHOULD BE STATED IN THE APPLICATION FORM

Issued March 15, 1937.

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1937

YALE UNIVERSITY
INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS

333 CEDAR STREET
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

May 25,1937.

Dear Bronio:

Thank you for your letter of May 14th. I am very glad
to give you details about the recommendation for the civil service post
of social science analyst. I have no copies of other recommendations
as the request goes directly to the person making the recommendation and
he sends it directly to Civil Service.

There is the necessary data. It is not necessary for you to
recommend me for the highest or lowest or inbetween post or say anything
about that. The Civil Service decides that on the basis of my rating &
also on what openings there are. There recommendation should, I think,
stress the following points.:

1) The Melanesian experience gave me among other things an objectivity in dealing with problems of our own society; the value of the functional approach to contemporary problems.

2) Experience and ability in working on sod olggical problems in our
own society -studies of rural and urban communities (Mississippi &
New Haven),

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3) Ability to plan and conduct research on significant problems and to analyze and prepare material for publication. Skill in interviewing, tact in dealing with people and handling such delicate and difficult situations as the interracial one, experience and ability in using statistical material and in getting interrelationships between economic factors and other social factors, ability to use research as a basis for practical recommendations and planning, broad knowledge and experience with a large number of techniques for social research.

Perhaps I should stop. Otherwise, you might get the idea
that I was immodest !

The Civil Service might ask you specific questions. Otherwise the above (particularly 2 and 3) is the kind of thing that would help me the most. I think recommendations carry quite a bit of weight indeciding the rating of the candidates. Thanks you in advance.

I am staying on at the Institute until Sept. 1st. Hope to
get a couple papers based on the New Haven material written this
summer. The Institute is bringing out my Mississippi book and I am
relieved that ~~that~~ will be out soon. I'll send you a copy when it is
out.

Not much else in news. I hope you're feeling wellan

As ever,

June 7th, 1937.

Dr. H. Powdermaker,
Institute of Human Relations,
333, Cedar Street,
New Haven,
CONNECTICUT.

Dear Hortense,

This is just to acknowledge your letter of
May 25th. It gives me a full and satisfactory answer
to the queries which I received.

So far the Civil Service have not approached
me for an opinion. I take it I should not write to
them spontaneously but have to wait till they ask me.
Should I be mistaken in that, let me know. I saw
Seligman the other day and told him that you would
be his guiding spirit at Yale, that is, if you are
still there. I sincerely hope however that the Civil
Service appointment will come off and that he will have
to look for you at Washington. In any case you might
prepare the ground for him and perhaps even drop him
a line, (his address is Toot Baldon, Nr. Oxford), as
to whom he might suitably get hold of in a friendly
manner.

Yours always,

Queens College

65-30 KISSENA BOULEVARD
FLUSHING, N. Y.

June 27, 1938

Dear Bronio,

I've heard that you'll be spending your Sabattical
pver here - rumor has it New Mexico. But surely you'll be in New York
for a while and I am looking forward very much to seeing you. When
do you come ? Won't you let me know in advance. The best address is
the college, as I am giving up my apt, in XXXXXXXXXXXX a few days and
will be taking a new one in September. I'll be South for the month
of July acting as a consultant ( whatever that means !) on a study
of the adjustment of Negro youth. August I'll be in the country -prob-
ably not very far from N.Y. The College will always have a forwarding
address for me.

The new job is working out rather well; only I have to
work too hard. But the situation is one in which I can function fairly
well. My effective in anthropology next term turns out to have attracted
more students than any other elective offered. What do you think of
that ! I am sort of playing up anthropology as basic to all the social
sciences. Which it is.

I hope you are feeling all right and I look forward to
seeing you soon.