Word: social
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Amherst Alumni announced recently the anonymous gift of $100,000 for a fellowship. The provisions are that a college graduate shall be appointed every two years who shall receive $2,000 a year to enable him to spend four years at home and abroad in the study of social, political and economic problems in preparation for a course of lectures to be given at the college...
...Hereafter, also, there will be a greater importance attached to the study of social questions. Social economy and kindred subjects will assume far larger proportions than hitherto. All that pertains to society should be considered as a field of objective research for science...
...population of the country, it aroused the special enmity of the American Legion, under the banner of which the murdered men were marching. This latter body, numbering nearly four million men, represents, as it were, a cross-section of American society. In its ranks are enrolled members of all social and industrial classes. The I. W. W., in aiming its weapons against the Legion, is not only increasing the enmity of the so-called upper classes, but is also ruining its chances of successful propaganda among a very large number of those it wishes to "convert"-the laboring...
...idea of making strikes illegal has been growing throughout the country during the present period of social unrest. Mr. Cummings in his railroad plan recommends its application to the railroad system, legislation now in progress in Massachusetts favors its enforcement in regard to the running of trolley lines; the injuction against the coal strike leaders is a significant sign of the Federal government's attitude...
...recent CRIMSON editorial advances in favor of universal military service: first, that it is a cure for social unrest; secondly, that General Pershing declares universal military training to be a school for citizenship; thirdly, that League or no League "we must have an army of sufficient strength to cope with any attack...