Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cost; by furnishing and circulating at a low price, and in cheap form, sound economic and political literature in maintenance and illustration of the principles above announced as constituting the basis of its organization: and by assisting in the formation of reading and corresponding circles and clubs for discussing social, political, and economic questions...
...Social Meeting of the Christian Brethren at 7.30 P. M. in Stoughton...
From all that has been said and written about Harvard indifference, a stranger would imagine that the average Harvard man is modelled after the old Stoics. The most exciting event in the outside social and political life receives from him a few laconic comments, and then he relapses again into his former state of let come what will, God rules and Harvard still lives, so I am content. But there have been many exceptions to this general rule. At times of great political excitement, the Harvard Union debates on the leading subjects of the day, have been able to attract...
...Master's within two years and a half after entering the school. The degree of Ph. D. may be given two years after the Bachelor's degree. A list of 32 courses is given under the heads of History, Economic Science, Political Ethics, Constitutional, Administrative and International Law and Social and Sanitary Sciences; from this the student can select his course. The seminary method is largely used in many of the courses, and in addition there is a Political Science Association divided into five sections (Historical, Economic, Administrative, Pedagogic and Scientific) for voluntary work and the benefits of mutual stimulus...
...original scientific investigation. Harvard holds to the old method of direct instruction, (with unimportant exceptions), in non-professional lines. There are no courses at Harvard, we believe, in Administrative Law, in the History of Political Theories, (slightly touched on in Phil 5 and Greek 8), or practically in Social Science. The instruction in Several other branches is also inferior in extent to that at these schools. The aim of Harvard in this matter, we believe, is to secure exact scholarship, rather than to offer the widest practical advantages...