Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History, will speak tonight at 7:30 o'clock on "Thermidor in Russia" over station WAAB and on the Colonial Network in the first of the Fall series of radio programs being sponsored by The Harvard Guardian, first college magazine of the Social Sciences...
...undergraduate organizations, publications, and teams to display posters on the bulletin boards of the Houses and University buildings advertising their competitions and their wares. In the past these posters have dealt with some sort of business, but last week there blossomed out a set of posters advertising a social function for Freshmen candidates: a rum punch. Despite the fact that rum punches are one of the choicest methods of spending a few hours, the public attempt to lure Freshmen to extra-curricular activities by such means is likely to be deceptive to the Freshman and certainly does not shed...
Punches and parties where drinks are served form an integral part of Harvard's social life. No one can object to such functions as long as they are kept private, as they always have been in the past, when they have taken place in the seclusion of individual rooms, and when invitations have been given personally from the hosts to their guests. Those who drink at these gatherings are among friends...
This admirable idea should have been put into effect several years ago, as it has long been a standing disgrace that Harvard University should have been so far behind the times on the issue of Social Security. There is little excuse for an institution as well endowed as Harvard is, comparatively speaking, to have neglected to make suitable provision for its aged and faithful employees. If the University is to continue to call itself a progressive institutions, and pride itself upon holding a place of leadership in the United States, it ought to think of such things sooner...
...Government, under the all embracing tutelage of the New Deal, has persuaded or coerced hard boiled business men of large industrial companies to adopt and conform to the Social Security Act, but Harvard should not put itself in the position where people may say, that the University put through its pension plan under pressure of public opinion...