Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Half the troubles of mankind come from an ignorance which consists less in not knowing things, than in wilfully ignoring known things. Certain great political and social plagues exist for which men of thought should be an antidote. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which an educated man renders to society simply by being thoughtful and by helping others to think. Passion, as well as ignorance, is dangerous. Educated men should oppose war when avoidable but when it becomes inevitable they should be its most vigorous advocates. No man ought to be too much educated...
Robert Treat Paine Fellowship of Social Science.John Edward George, Ph. D. (Northwestern Univ.) 1897; II. year Graduate School; Scholar of the Harvard Club of Chicago 1896-97, Robert Treat Paine (Resident) Fellow 1897-98. To study the Ethical Problems of Society. Reappointment. To have leave to study abroad...
That it could be introduced by class organization seems unlikely. While the history of Freshman and Sophomore clubs has proved that class clubs can be successful on a formal basis, their equal success on an informal and social, seems improbable. They are too large and the interests of their individual members are too varied. The possibility of establishing such a system is then in the hands of individual undergraduates. At Yale it is applied only among the best debaters, there being but twenty members of each "camp." What we would propose at Harvard is the organization in the Junior...
...meeting held last night in Sanders Theatre, in regard to the relief of sick and wounded soldiers, it was decided to hold a meeting in the Social Union at 11 a. m., June 18, to organize a Cambridge branch of the State Volunteer Aid Society...
Professor Farlow intends to spend the winter in the West Indies studying and traveling. Professor Peabody will study social problems in Europe. His course in Ethics will therefore not be given next year...