Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duties of each class committee are left to the individual group, Houghton stated. However, each committee is supposed to organize at least one social event for the entire class during the year, he added. Other duties such as organization of the Class Album are relegated to the Class Committee, Houghton said...
...groups will play to a capacity audience. After a notice of the concert was sent out to 65 social agencies this month applications began pouring in. N. Conant Webb, Jr. '49, and Christopher M. Martin '49, who are directing ticket distribution, announced that 1,100 free tickets had been given out Over 500 had to be turned away...
...Monday's social calendar are children's parties at Bertram Hall, Everett House, and 20 Walker st. Everett and Bertram have both decided to keep house yuletide parties the traditionally all-feminine event, Everett asking for two hour's worth of girls in the seven-year age bracket and Bertram inviting 20 girls of the same age through the assistance of the Cambridge Family Society. 20 Walker's seven-year-olds will come from the Margaret Fuller House in Cambridge...
...enrolled in a daily reading course given by William G. Perry, Jr., director of the Bureau of Study Counsel. Perry teaches them to get ideas out of books faster, especially in the social studies area. Most students enter the course, with a reading speed of 220 wards a minute and leave it with a rate of about 420 words per minute...
First of the two angles is literary history; it places greatest emphasis on the subject's environment, considering contemporary social, economic, and political influences. The Department of History and Literature was created for this purpose. There is an extreme, however: the field of American literature is often ridiculed for over-emphasizing historical background to obscure the scarcity of works worthy of careful consideration in them selves...