Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frances MacDonald '49 has been appointed social chairman for all Annex commuters...
...dividual Negro by the ignorance of the mass But the North is too much misled the ability of a few conspicuous Negroes. Mrs. Roosevelt has been hopelessly misled because she has seen only the best. The South is going to keep the line drawn between civil rights and social privilege. Civil rights should be recognized; social privilege is a matter of individuals. The South is going to keep that line drawn and that's all there...
...above the costive strivings of Israeli nationalism. Said he: "We are a small country, but a big people. We must not be satisfied with just having a country of our own. We must prove that we still possess the force that once gave the world moral law and social laws. Our relations with other peoples must be pervaded by the spirit of peace and by the spirit of the Jewish nation which, after a small pause of 2,000 years, has come home...
Decadence. Keith John Reeve, an alumnus of Bromsgrove (A. E. Housman's school), thought that his monastic old school would do better to imitate the social life at St. James in Maryland, where there were three dances a year and dates almost every week. Otherwise he was sticking by Bromsgrove. Said Reeve: "At Bromsgrove, we developed a thirst for knowledge. At St. James, boys were apt to regard culture as a sign of decadence, devotion to learning as the mark of a sissy. The student merely wants to learn enough to pass the next test. Then it goes...
Both men re-emphasize two facts often forgotten: the world still has millions of mystics, and the most mystical human beings are often among the most practical as well. Merton cites St. Francis, whose visions did not keep him from down-to-earth social work, and the contemporary Catherine de Hueck, with her Roman...