Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry they were putting into the different projects, getting out booklets and newsletters and so on, I began to view with alarm a little. Not that they can do any harm by themselves. But when you get a large organization, full of pep and eager to do something with social significance, and without a single thought in its collective head that has anything to do with what is going on in the world except that it likes "our American way of life," you have the perfect set-up for any effective demagogue to take over so long as he seems...
...overall effect of science on men's minds has been bad," John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy, declared at the first fall meeting of the Students' Association for the Natural and Social Sciences last night in Littauer auditorium...
...Academy has not entirely disregarded its contact with civilians through the last war. Within the last few years, the curriculum has been altered drastically from its old scientific emphasis to the point where now almost one half of its courses are in the fields of social science and humanities. True, courses in military history and the psychology of military leadership come under these headings, and another course in the department teaches relations with the National Guard and Reserves, but there is at least a realization of the old maxim that there are two ways to lead a donkey...
...formation of a partially civilian Board of Consultants, headed by Karl Compton, ex-president of M.I.T. After a study of the institution in 1945, this board submitted a report which concluded; "...the four years of college can best be devoted to education in the general fundamentals, enlargement of social vision, and development of cultural appreciation. Because of the variety of duties and of leadership which fall to the lot of the Army officer, to provide a foundation of this type of liberal education becomes increasingly the mission of the Academy...
Annex Janitors are the only men who'll get into Radcliffe informal dances this term without a written invitation social chairman Sue Hamilton '49 warned yesterday as she mailed the first batch of dance ducats to Harvard targets...