Word: social
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Halls. Both of these anticipations have proved true. There has been no resentment at the compulsory assignment to the several Freshman Halls, although the policy of dividing those coming from the same school among different halls has been steadily pursued; while the formation of new friendships, the enlargement of social relations, has been notable...
...Palmer House. The students had no classes Induction Day, but the faculty were at their posts. Visitors were taken through classrooms, laboratories, clinics; were allowed to poke into the University press, oldest (1892) U. S. college printshop; saw Police-Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted, whose red-bound ancient history many a school must study. Through its local Community Research Committee, the University makes...
...post-graduate work. Half its graduates go forth as preachers and pedagogs; 119 of them have become college presidents. Last week University of Chicago students voted the Bible their Favorite Book. More than 40% of the enrolment are graduate students. President Hutchins says: "A University is not primarily for social contacts. You can get those at any country club...
...President Hoover inaugurates Washington's social season with a dinner to the diplomatic corps...
...news is new to the majority it only throws into sharper relief the veil of darkness which has clung like the Eleusinian mysteries over the social ideal so cannily supported by a foreign financial power. For with no uncertain show of favoritism, select groups of men have already been let in on the secret while the rest loiter about the doors of the exclusive House Plan Club and wait with a degree of hopefulness such as attended the coming of the Ford...