Word: fabianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Often only those people who have been personally devoted to a leader will undertake to write his or her biography. Certainly Margaret Cole, who worked with Beatrice Webb in the Fabian Society, is too closely connected with the British Socialist movement to maintain even an aura of scholarly objectivity. The author seems more concerned with justifying each particular action of her idol than with evaluating her various campaigns in the light of her announced objectives. This, plus a rather careless style, makes "Beatrice Webb" more of an expanded pamphlet than a work of research, but Mrs. Cole's observations...
...which will supplement any windfall housing donated by the government. It is even more difficult to imagine that a comparison of the financial positions of the respective institutions would effectively explain why one is looking for more units, while the other has the land and bargains, Fabian-like, with the government, state, city, anybody, to come in and do the job for them. There is no questioning fiscal conservatism in normal times, but pre-war economies plus the traditional administrative lack of concern for the extra-academic welfare of the married student are highly dated policies while a growing percentage...
Collecting a crowd of about 50 for its first meeting in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night, one supporter calling himself "a Liberal with no place to go," and another "just plain curious," the New Fabian Society heard two of its three faculty sponsors and outlined its three point program for immediate action...
...steering committee was empowered to investigate lines of political action, plans were considered for the publication of a series of penny pamphlets explaining the Fabian position of evolutionary socialism, and a speakers' bureau was projected...
Herman T. Finer, visiting lecturer on Government and member of the executive of the British Fabian Society, traced the historical development of that organization, and A. Sprague Coolidge, lecturer on Chemistry and onetime Socialist party candidate for the United States Senate, spoke of "the failure" of parallel movements in this country...