Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of that nebulous period known as the "transition from school to college." For some, the adjustments that are necessary during the freshman year present no difficulties; but for the majority the realization that an entirely new set of values has to be accepted, a new set of social relationships successfully encountered, demands a disproportionate amount of concentration and effort. At Harvard there are a number of individuals, or groups of them, that, working generally behind the scenes, provide help and advice for those who need them...
Richard G. Ames '34 was a former Secretary and Treasurer of the Brooks House Committee, and Henry R. Ames '38 was extremely active in social service work for the House...
This outstanding interest in Professor Peabody's life dominated his career as a teacher and his formulation of social ethics as a field of university study was unquestionably a pioneer service. It was his belief as a Christian minister that Christianity, rightly understood and applied, would furnish the best guide for the solution of the many critical problems of family life and social welfare which the changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries had brought to the front. While the present trends of constructive work in the direction of social amelioration may be less visibly and consciously inspired by religious...
...Plummer Professorship Professor Peabody was largely concerned, after the death of Phillips Brooks, with the planning and erection of Phillips Brooks House and with the organization of the Phillips Brooks House Association as a center of various religious organizations of students and of their activities in the line of social service. His special interest in the latter reflected an almost apostolic fervor in making the modern world, and especially university men, aware of the social and ethical implications of the changes which the industrial revolution had brought in human society...
...revealing a heroine consumed with passion and broke the traditional theory that woman could only be the loved and not the lover. Though the situation used in the novel had been used many times before, the theme was radical. The former shows a young woman entering life under social disadvantages, which she overcomes in the end by returning to marry Rochester. The latter is harder to define and can be interpreted in several ways; essentially, it is woman's struggle in literature to be considered as more than chaste and innocent, as an intelligent person who can assert her independence...