sentences:  The origins of this tertiary college were in the "Collège Libre des Sciences Sociales," founded in 1895 by the journalist and novelist Dick May; Theophilus Funck-Brentano, a professor at "Ecole libre du sciences politiques;" and Pierre du Maroussem, who taught at the Law Faculty of Paris (Sorbonne).Especially during the Dreyfus Affair and the rise of the "université populaire" movement, they wanted to create a place for study of the new field of social sciences and emerging thought in economics.They envisioned it as a place where practitioners would teach so that students would learn from more than textbooks.