Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plateau in Nishinomiya, Japan, in the social center of Kobe College, is a room dedicated to Radcliffe in commemoration of the pre-war sister-college relationship between the two schools. A plaque in the room reads, "Veritas: In Knowledge and Love of Truth," words suggested by Radcliffe's affiliation with Harvard, and chosen by ex-Radcliffe President Ada L. Comstock during her visit to Kobe...
...eyes of the church, Editor Dalla Torre wrote, "capitalism is a social disease and a pestilence . . . Faithfully following divine teaching, the church has fought throughout the centuries against this human passion [for wealth], which together with ambition and the abuse of force represents the trio of humanity's greatest social demons...
...Pope, in his speech to the employers, laid quite a different emphasis. "Why not," he asked, "while there is still time, put things in order ... in a way to secure the . . . [employer] against unjust suspicion and the . . . [workers] against illusions which will not be long in becoming social perils...
...plain as a picket's placard: the case had sinister overtones of Jim Crowism and white supremacy. In a furious editorial the Worker slapped down its sportwriters : "We regret that [they] should have tended in one case to minimize and in the other case to overlook this social aspect of the Durocher case, their comments ranging from a 'let's-hear-from-both-sides' to a 'it's-too-difficult-to-judge' attitude...
...explores the virtues and vices of the school system, young Jack gets caned, taunted, snubbed and bullied by his masters and schoolmates. In the end he emerges a successful product of the British public-school system, with a stiff upper lip and an upper-class accent. Both upper & lower social classes, presumably, have learned a lot in the process...