Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more ways than one Spain's Franco resembles the South's Lee. The government of each sought foreign aid. Both men renounced the uniform of the army they had been bred to. When a new social order threatened, both decided to forego the new, stick to the old with their class and kind...
...over 300,000 acres of State lands and lands formerly leased to private individuals and companies, constructed some 700 schools where army noncoms act as teachers, restricted the employment of foreigners and imposed price and minimum wage restrictions on the sugar industry. However, the surface of his mass of social, economic-reforms has not been scratched. So extensive are the proposed reforms that cynical oppositionists have dubbed the program "Batista's 300-Year Plan...
...tempo of modern life" with its insistence on immediate, practical, marketable qualities. The rapid shift in the last decade from English as the most popular field, through Economics during the great Depression, and now to Government since we have lost faith in unhampered economic forces as a social panacea, illustrates the variable nature of students' desires...
...with all due allowance for the social phenomena which condition Harvard and have helped to push the Classics into the virtual limbo in which they now stagnate, all is not right with the department here. A definite charge that they have neglected to make their subject appealing to students must be made against the men who now control its policy. Musty research, benign scholasticism and dull philology are not fulfilling obligations to their subject or to students who might benefit from a more vigorous and timely presentation. That a broader cultural and literary approach might be used is merely...
...recommended to the Harvard public in general, but it is recommended to History 1 section men in particular. They raised an eyebrow at "The Buccaneer"; they are being currently horrified by "Marco Polo," but "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is a research job. As a piece of social documentation it is unexcelled even by the work from which it was taken, every item in the sets having been checked for historical authenticity...