Word: social
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens live, thrive, tend their families, amuse themselves, go insane, was a study President Hoover last week assigned to another new commission-The Research Committee on Social Trends-financed by the Rockefeller Foundation...
...People were wrong to say that Clemenceau was an antifeminist. In giving women franchise and social liberty, he did fear the influence on them by the clergy. Accordingly he was against too much power for women in Catholic countries. The Protestant religion he considered more as a philosophy, and he admitted therefore that universal suffrage was feasible in Protestant countries...
...organization is Princeton's American Whig Society. Established in 1769, its early membership was composed of hot-headed Colonials who congregated on the top floor of Nassau Hall, fomenting juvenile sedition. Until the last decade, Whig and its rival, the Cliosophic Society, one year younger, held positions of social importance on the campus. Undergraduate lassitude caused them to merge into one Hall last year. But many an oldtime Whig and Clio debater has made good in after life as a pedagog or politician. Two U. S. Presidents, five presidents of Princeton, were Whigs. One night last week Whig observed...
...promoting the social mingling of foreign and American students, the International Council is attempting to sound out the attitude of students at Harvard in respect to the possible future establishment of an International House here. It is hoped that a center for social activities of foreign students can thus be realized. A step in this direction was made when the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet turned over to the International Council the use of the Shepard Memorial room in the Phillips Brooks House...
...Brattle Hall Concert has become a yearly social event and will be followed by a dance for which the Gold Coast Orchestra will furnish the music...