Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social work department of Phillips Brooks House last night issued a call for volunteers to work this summer in charity camps through the wilder parts of New England...
...School was not a man whom the "Wall Street bankers who now help administer Harvard's finances" would have chosen. The list of professors, and instructors of leanings decidedly to the Left of Center could be extended indefinitely. Indeed, complaint has been heard that the University has staffed its Social Departments with too many men of Leftist inclinations, but the main point to be observed is the utter folly of such charges as Mr. Lamb's ill-considered attack. Bitter wars of words can do no harm to an institution like Harvard, where academic liberty is as firmly entrenched...
Stating "once more Harvard has fumbled the ball," Robert Keen Lamb '28, former heard of the University, News Office and last year a member of the Economics Department, in an article, "Harvard Starves the Social Sciences", attacks University officials for the dismissal of Walsh and Sweezy...
Writing for the current number of the "Nation", Lamb, who is now teaching at Williams, places the responsibility for the trouble on President Conant. He claims that it is an "open secret" that President Conant is out of sympathy with the social sciences in the university and that this biased option is intensified by the members of the Harvard Corporation, namely five corporation lawyers and a fashionable physician who are out to avoid all unfavorable publicity...
Lamb goes to say that this feeling has resulted in a policy of the "student be damned" as regards undergraduate demands for further courses in social sciences...