Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frequently said that the chief hope of long-run social service work lies in education. Until recently Harvard's social service agency, Phillips Brooks House, made only limited use of this bit of knowledge. Last spring, however, several enterprising Freshmen began the formation of an "undergraduate faculty" whose purpose it was to tutor worthy, underprivileged graduates of high schools in Metropolitan Boston. Lately a system has been inaugurated to the effect that other worthy high school graduates can now be placed under student tutors. If this present increase in the P.B.H. "faculty" is any indication of the future of this...
Lately there has been some dissatisfaction with Phillips Brooks House and its social service work. The critics charge that P.B.H. wasn't fulfilled to the best of its ability its position as Harvard's welfare organization. For until last year P.B.H. was doing little else but furnishing settlement workers and giving out holiday baskets of food to needy families. The importance of these functions, especially the former one, should not be underrated; it is still important to continue them. But they are really remedies for social ills and scarcely preventatives...
...John P. Higgins '17, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts; Franklin E. Parker, Jr. '18, President of the American Arbitration Association and Director of the New York Legal Aid Society; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. '24, Senator from Massachusetts; Thomas E. Eliot '28, former General Counsel of the Social Security Board...
Raymond Dennett '36, Graduate Secretary of P. B. H., also revealed yesterday that the $400 appropriation which sends two students to the Grenfell Mission in Labrador each summer has been withdrawn and will be used to finance any student summer activity along social service lines considered worthy of subsidy. Work at the Grenfell Mission is not necessarily excluded, however...
...times. Macaulay's spectacular progress, says Biographer Beatty, came mainly from a powerful tail wind: the hurricane force of the rising industrial middle class, with which he unequivocally aligned himself against the land-owning Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress" with social heaven. His real genius lay in his power of blunt statement -a talent that would have taken him far in journalism today. "An acre in Middlesex," said he, "is better than a principality in Utopia...