Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual event since the first conference in 1922, the Foreign Affairs School ranks among the more important conferences on international affairs which have continued to attract and instruct a wide following. In providing authoritative information about social, economic, and political conflict over the entire world, the League has succeeded in obtaining as speakers men and women of international repute in their chosen fields...
...round table discussion of Economic and Social Consequences of Political Philosophies will be held Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock. Under the leadership of William Y. Elliott, Professor of Government at Harvard, the following spokesmen, each representing a political philosophy, will participate: Fascism, Judge Felix Forte; Communism, George Blake, New England Secretary of Organization, Communist Party; Nationalism, Miss Sarah Wambaugh, widely experienced in international adjustments and policies; Professor Elliott will speak for Democracy...
Wednesday will be European Day with the following topics and speakers: At 10:30 Donald C. McKay, Instructor is History at Harvard, speaks on the subject "Struggle for Influence in the Mediterranean: England, France, Italy and Spain." "Social Strife in Spain" will follow at 11:30, the lecturer being Dr. Frank Edward Manuel, recently returned from Spain, where he made a study of labor adn other social problems...
...student Board of Columbia college proposed the idea of the conference, to include discussion of such topics as Academic Freedom; Voting Systems; Systems of Representation; Athletics-intercollegiate and intramural; Commuters; Student Finance and Scholarships; Loans and Subsidies; Employment offices and Vocational Guidance; Curriculum; Religion; Physical plant; and, Fraternities and Social Life...
...valedictory address Karl Taylor Compton gave a discourse on "The Electron: Its Intellectual and Social Significance" in which, as a lesson in the ultimate value of research in pure science, he pointed out that the invisible electron, once a figment in the mind of physics and later the plaything of a few pioneers, is now the ubiquitous slave of mankind...