Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Eliot has recently written a book entitled "The Conflict between Individualism and Collectivism in a Democracy," in which he has set forth some of his views on the subject. "Collectivism values highly social rights, objects to an individual initiative which does mischief when left free, holds that the interest of the many should override the interests of the individual when two interests conflict." In short, what President Eliot means by Collectivism, is more the thoughtful social organization restricting the individual to the common good, including...
...graduated from College in 1841, he attended the Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1847. He then became a minister of the Theodore Parker school, but in 1858 abandoned the pulpit, having entered actively into literature and also into political affairs, especially in the anti-slavery conflict over Kansas. In 1862 he became a captain in the 51st Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and afterwards Colonel of the 1st Regiment of South Carolina, composed of freed slaves. He was severely wounded in August, 1863, and left the service in the following year. From the close...
...Scales and the Sword" deals with the conflict between the selfish interest represented by an extortionate suburban grocer, and the social interest, represented by refugees driven from their homes by a great city fire...
President Eliot will deliver an address on "Diversity in Family, College, and State" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. This lecture was the one which President Eliot was to have given on March 7, but which was postponed on account of a conflict with the first of Dr. Figgis's lectures under the William Belden Noble Foundation. The lecture will be open to members of the Union only...
President Eliot will deliver an address on "Diversity in Family, College, and State" in the Living Room of the Union. Monday evening at 8 o'clock. President Eliot was to have delivered this address last week but owing to a conflict of dates which brought the first lecture by Dr. Figgis on the same evening, President Eliot's lecture was postponed. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...