Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alarming part of the Victory speech was Roosevelt's determination to name himself as supreme genius of the new social order. He has no monopoly of humanitarian ideals nor are he and his clique the only ones who can write sound laws. To build the ark of his "more abundant life" he needs tons of objective, outside advice and a lot of rechecking. So long as he adds every no-man to the rolls of the Union League Club, so far will the construction fall short of the blue print...
...cannot help hoping, therefore, that we have reached the end of the movement away from the Arts and Letters and toward the Social Sciences, and that such important traditional studies as Philosophy and Classics may soon show an increased enrollment...
...subject which would provide the unity President Conant stated to be highly necessary if the liberal arts tradition were to continue successfully has been explained in the report and does not appear inconsistent with the President's expressed feeling that there is an "unfortunate" shift toward the social sciences...
President Conant regretted the steady trend away from the Arts and Letters and toward the Social Sciences as an upsetting of the balance of interest so important to an institution of liberal education. "If continued in the same direction at the same rate for another decade his trend might well prove disastrous...
...catholic and philosophy inquiry into American history, including the cultural, scientific, social and economic aspects, was chosen because it most nearly approximated the ideal-that of giving students the opportunity to grasp what are or should be the fundamental realities of contemporary society and their evolution from the past. A specific illustration is the current discussion of the Supreme Court, the misinformation expressed and the lack of understanding shown by partisans on both sides. Yet the question is as pertinent and as closely related to any individual as the memorandum on his office desk or the test tube...