Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brazil's Foreign Minister, Jose Carlos de Macedo Scares, one of the biggest businessmen in São Paulo, owner of vast coffee plantations, a student of economics and diplomacy, the kind of man who wears comfortable and badly wrinkled linen suits, is not interested in social functions and rides to his office in full state behind a chauffeur and a liveried footman...
...Council of Government Concentrators indicates that it is well on the way to success. Students in other fields, particularly in the order social sciences, would do well to follow the Council's example. While the instructors must be willing to cooperate, it is important that the actual impetus come from the men themselves. Inerested and critical student organizations in every field of concentration would go a long way toward stimulating that absorption of interest of the individual student in his subject matter which is the very lifeblood of a university...
Through Phillips Brooks House comes an appeal for more volunteers to do social service work. This form of extracurricular activity has been going on for many years unnoticed by a large majority of graduates and undergraduates. The time requirements are only two hours a week. Many men do not understand the main motives behind...
...significance of personal contact with Boston slums and settlement houses, where boys and girls with a minimum of opportunities are encouraged to improve their minds and bodies in an atmosphere of social cleanliness cannot be exaggerated. It is one of the few forms of practical training that college life can offer. In social work a man tests his power of leadership, his ability to pit his ideas against keen, youthful opposition, and his skill in solving complex problems. It is valuable self-education, broadening an individual's social knowledge and directing his thinking into channels unrelated to himself...
...settlement house is located. He is concerned, and not in the tea-cup manner, about the people who live on the rim of existence. Today it is possible to find in the well-organized Phillips Brooks House clothing drive merely one outward manifestation of vigorous internal life and social usefulness...