Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...university must sift new ideas and new theories. It must always, therefore, be radical in the eyes of some. The ideas may turn out to be faulty; but this must not be made a basis for preventing their full investigation. A university can afford to remove itself from our social fabric to protect those who search in any manner for the truth in any form. It must do so to justify its existence, for a school which lacks freedom to inquire into the nature of truth does not deserve the title of university...
Dana had also furthered the educational experimentation which had characterized the 325-student Liberal Arts college for decades. The "Olivet Policy" had taught "self-realization" and social perception and had used occasionally unorthodox methods to accomplish this...
...Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Clarence R. Athearn, professor of Philosophy and Social Ethics, was dismissed in May, 1948. Athearn had been county chairman of the Progressive Party until March of that year...
...York Harvard Club is one of ten exclusive social and athletic clubs which are being investigated in the current New York City probe of alleged theater ticket scalping. Among the other clubs implicated are the Yale, Princeton and Columbia clubs...
...wave of indignation about the pending restriction of its social activities swiftly spread among the Princeton student body, and Wednesday night 2000 undergraduates massed to hear student speakers attack the administration's proposed two-party schedule...