Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another aspect of the problem of Harvard's teaching methods that cannot be ignored is the social organization of the College and its effect on the individual. This is closely related to the educational method, as I shall try to point out in my conclusion. The CRIMSON has printed a series of editorials this year stating the facts of the social organization, or rather lack of organization, in the College. The picture those articles gives is of extreme heterogeneity and individualism compensated by attachment to intense little cliques either in clubs, activities, or informal groups. Having lived in the College...
...Freshman at Harvard in particular wants desperately to find a group to which he can attach himself, and, since there is little or no opportunity to meet his intellectual colleagues in the lecture hall or even in the section, he turns to some formal or informal social group whose only common denominator is an interest in football games, cocktail parties, and desultory bull sessions...
...sink into complete bankruptcy if it were not for American food and raw materials, had to be headed on a new road leading toward economic self-sufficiency. SCAP wanted a balanced budget, which Katayama had not been able to achieve. Heavier taxes, higher government commodity prices would be necessary. Social Democrats boggled. The crisis came at a party convention last month. Left-wingers voted against continued support of the coalition. Katayama, realizing that his job was ending, let out a sigh: "All I want is sleep, sleep...
...lies in its "inability to preserve the allegiance of the industrial workers of modern civilization. . . . Protestantism was the religion of the common man in the days of the American frontier. But as frontiersmen graduated into the middle class, the Protestant Church tended to move up one rung in the social ladder and to step down one rung from prophetic vitality to the complacency of the established order. Catholicism, on the other hand, has never lost sight of the social character of man's existence...
...social snobs, Runyon (who spent $50 on his own shoes) could pause to comment on the fancy shoes being worn by the Marquess of Queensberry; for hero-worshipers he had the right tone of awe ("Now here comes J. Pierpont Morgan himself . . . [and] you see the lightning behind the brows, and sense the thunder in the voice"). To the honest, indignant poor, Runyon gave descriptions of Capone's ill-gotten silken underwear...