Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sees the solution as coming from more and not less of this sort of action: "The problem of the University is not to disassociate itself and its members from society in order to avoid attack, but rather to play a larger and more direct role in mass social life with wisdom, courage, temperance, humility, and understanding." He says this might be the test of whether culture can operate successfully in society as a whole...
...remedy, he says, is not through excessive "legalistic restraint with penalties" if the freedom of the individual is to be maintained, but by "the maintenance of self-government through the maintenance of values enforced through voluntary social approval...
...there is also a practical problem," he continued, "calling for the development of new, practical means of enforcing traditional values of individual freedom to withstand extraordinary conditions of shock and conflict, social irritability, the decadence of past imagery as to satisfactory social forms, and similar evidences of social discontent...
...Charles C. Burlingham '79, New York lawyer, formerly President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and President of the Harvard Alumni Association, and Monsignor John A. Ryan, of Washington, Professor of Moral Theology and Industrial Ethics at Catholic University and Director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Council...
Crime, war, oppression, and the other social cataclysms of the world may be traced to the "degenerate trends in human evolution which are producing millions of animals of our species inferior in mind and body," Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology, declared in a Lowell Lecture last night...