Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest committee is the Social Service Committee, which takes care of a great deal of the entertainment for underprivileged children that are tended by thirty settlement houses scattered all over Boston. Every talent that volunteers can show will find an audience among these youths...
...professorial) humor; the coming attempts to draft Freshmen into various extra-curricular activities--these cannot be treated negatively by the men involved. Seriously speaking, then, the problem boils down--after the first, short-lived confusion--to this: how best can a balance be obtained between the academic and the social in a college career...
...social side of college life will take care of itself. In other words, it is necessarily unplanned, spontaneous. No planning is done by the college; Harvard treats its students as men, assumes that they will act as such. It is good psychology, and it works. No planning is done by other students: there are no prescribed rites for Freshmen, no hazing. And none is done by the individual, as a general rule. Bull sessions make themselves; so do trips to Wellesley, football weekends, spring riots. Even extra-curricular activities of the more serious sort--writing for publications, playing for athletic...
...Rauschning's own wording of the Nazi horrorscope: "The new [National Socialist] social order will consist of ... blind obedience to an absolute despotism . . . a progressive economic destruction of the middle class, and the all-pervading atmosphere of barracks and prison . . . desolation, impoverishment, regimentation, and the collapse of civilized existence...
...warning by Author Buell is that the democracies must guarantee an independent Poland as a guarantee of their own survival. Last week Democracy's big guns were okaying that advice. His second warning: that the democracies must also go to work on Poland's formidable economic and social snarls in order to keep it democratic...