Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Massachusetts Schoolmasters' Club, at the Hotel Brunswick, April 16, the general topic for discussion will be "Social Progress and Education in the United States." Professor P. H. Hanus, the president of the club, will preside, and Professor D. R. Dewey of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on "The Atlantic Seaboard"; Professor F. J. Turner with regard to "The Middle West"'; and Professor A. B. Hart '80, on "The Southern States." A dinner at 1 o'clock will precede the regular meeting...
...George Riddle '74 will read from Kipling, Sheridan, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Southey, and others in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The program will be as follows: "The Ballad of East and West," Kipling; Mrs. Malaprop, "The Rivals," Sheridan; "Wives in a Social Game," Anonymous; The Village Dressmaker. "Timothy's 'Quest," Kate Douglas Wiggin; "The Cataract of Lodore," Southey; "A Female Jury," Arlo Bates; "L'Envoi," "The Seven Seas," Kipling...
...patriots and scholars. By precept and example you have taught that the first duty of every citizen is to his country. In public life you have been independent and out spoken: in private life you have stood for simplicity. In the great and bewildering conflict of economic and social questions you have with clear head and firm voice spoken for the fundamental principles of democracy and the liberties of the people...
...because those words express what seems to me to be the absolute ideal of American society. They said that I had done something for justice, for progress, and for truth. Are not those the real Harvard ideals,--the ideals of us all? Is there any progress, political or social, that is not founded upon justice? We all believe that. We are all going to try to live that, for ourselves and for our country. And what is the object of justice but to win more and more of truth? That short sentence sums up the Harvard idea of social work...
...that of maintaining democratic ideals and the democratic virtues of self-respecting freedom, tolerance and regard for law and the common good. Against the recrudescence of militarism and its accompanying vices of ceremonialism in religion and law, bossism and the demand for "regularity" in politics, and snobbery in social relations.--for these things can no more he dissociated than can snow and ice from winter weather.--President Eliot has thrown the weight of his influence. Though in a position where a man of lower ideals could have amply gratified aristocratic yearnings, he has maintained the higher dignity of democratic simplicity...