Word: social
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...films have little interest in the difference--is considerably the best. In it the songs are introduced by making the hero an embryonic song writer and the heroine a chorus girl who inherited the school, and by letting the students sing and dance all over the place at social functions, at the Big Game and while Miss Helen Kane is supposed to be taking a music lesson. You can see that the audiences make no demand for any super-ingenuity in the plotting of the musical interludes...
Through intramural athletics the Department of Physical Education tries to interest the student in both team and individual games. It urges everybody to seek the benefits of the intramural program--namely, sportsmanship and all that the term implies, exercise, recreation, social intercourse and competition. But at the same time the Department realizes that these benefits will not be gained merely through participation in the various activities. It takes the attitude that it must teach sportsmanship, intensify exercise, enhance recreation, develop social intercourse and stimulate keen competition. Furthermore, the extent to which the program is successful is not determined...
...Library, which is now nearly finished, to plans for the housing of about 1,000 undergraduates who are at present but poorly accommodated. While not entering upon the so-called House Plan, as developed at Harvard, still Yale in its new Human Welfare Group is starting an educational and social experiment which may prove to have just as wide reaching effects...
...report of what Dr. Bell said. I therefore venture merely to say that of course the Harvard houses are not intended to be separate colleges. If they should have influence elsewhere, I should expect it to be rather in the direction of breaking up large colleges into subdivisions mainly social, than in the direction of an affiliation of several small colleges into a large university...
Many of the courses offered by the Graduate School of City Planning are open to students in the Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Certain courses in the College are also listed as prescribed for the degree, including Fine Arts 1d, the History of Mediaeval, Modern, and Renaissance Art; Social Ethics 30, housing problems and the social aspects of Town Planning; Government 17a, Municipal Government, and Government 17b, Municipal Administration...