Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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East Punjab University authorities, aware of the hardships suffered by the students, still realize that a narrow financial margin still distinguishes the student class of India from the general populace. House a program of study leading to a social service degree has just been organized...
Christianity's mission is "not to fear the social movement in the world, not to struggle purposelessly against it, but to spiritualize it and to try to cure it from the poison that has been mixed with it, the poison of hate...
Virginia Woolf appreciated the massive social novels of Fielding and Thackeray, but they did not even write about the questions that interested her. She sought to penetrate beyond the appearances of daily experience to the inner core of life. For this she employed three essential symbols : Time, Space and the Sea, the perennial aspects of life's hazy patterns. By concentrating all of her attention on a moment's experience she tried to detect its ties with the past, its anticipation of the future. And while she could not answer the questions she posed, she found...
...General Education program will get another boost in size next year, as two new courses in the Humanities, four in the Social Sciences, and one in the Natural Sciences will swell the total offerings of the program to 24. President Conant's course on the growth of the experimental sciences, formerly a middle course group open only to Juniors and Seniors, has been shifted to the first group and will be open to Freshmen as a full-year course...
...study of "Economics for the Citizen" by Seymour E. Harris, and two courses on the civilization of India and the Near East in the Social Sciences round out the new offerings...