1. Editor’s comments

   • Richard H. Hall

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 5

2. Letters of recommendation in academe: Do women and men write in different languages?

   • Susan E. Bell
   • C. Suzanne Cole
   • Liliane Floge

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 22

3. “Acting as a switchboard”: Mrs. Ethel Sturges Dummer’s role in sociology

   • Jennifer Platt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 36

4. A piece of lost history: Max Weber and Lowell L. Bennion

   • Laurie Newman DiPadova
   • Ralph S. Brower

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 56

5. Another edsel: The collective misperception of the demand for the certification of MA sociologists

   • Russell K. Schutt
   • Herbert L. Costner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 71