Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agriculture is concerned, it must be remembered that it is either plantation agriculture or cattle raising. Not only is the climate too severe to permit Europeans to do actual labor in the field, but there is also the social system in Africa which frowns on anything but native labor...
...college system, made possible by the gift of Edward S. Harkness, also came in for a share of praise. "The colleges have passed from the stage of mere residential units and . . . are adding intellectual and aesthetic values to the social advantages they offer," he said. "The increasing number of distinguished visitors who are brought into close touch with Yale students and teachers provide educational assets beyond estimate...
...Eliot team led by John B. Finley, Jr. '25, assistant professor of Classics, took the affirmative on the question; "Resolved, That Harvard should place more emphasis on the Classics and less on the Social Sciences," and defeated Dudley in an inter-House debate last night in the Dudley Common Room...
Finley's colleague, Roosevelt, stated later in the debate, "We are the slaves of facts, and the classics are our only liberators. The humanities are expelled by the sciences. The study of the social sciences has corrupted the classics. History has gone entirely economic...
Tonight in the Dudley House Common Room at 7:30 o'clock Eliot House meets the Commuters in the fourth week of the inter-House debating season. The subject is: "Reseolved, That Harvard should place more emphasis on the Classics and less on the Social Sciences...