Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Social Service Committee is directing its attention to various forms of social settlement work in Boston and Cambridge and about 100 men have been placed in positions of social service activity. All those interested should see one of the members of the following committee, which is in charge of the different branches of the work: chairman, A. G. Cable '09; clothing collection, J. Curtiss '09; entertainment troupes, J. T. Nightingale '10; assignment, P. W. Carter '10; boys' clubs, L. E. Drew '11, A. Gregg '11, and G. Swan '09; home libraries, T. M. Gregory '10; juvenile court, G. W. Hallowell...
...former and 100 of the latter. The groups meet weekly in the various dormitories and are led by graduates and undergraduates, who in turn are coached in the normal courses led by Dean Hodges and Professor J. H. Ropes on "The Life of Christ" and "The Social Significance of the Teachings of Jesus." Professor Ropes course meets Tuesdays at 6.30 in the Randall Room and Dean Hodges' course on Wednesdays at the same hour in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House. By this means the leaders of the groups are fully prepared for their course of study. A third normal...
...William I. Cole, who has been for many years a resident worker at the South End House in Boston, will speak on "The Appeal of Social Work" at the meeting of the Christian Association in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. Mr. Cole has rendered valuable service to the Department of Social Ethics in preparing an exhibit illustrating the work of the social settlements of the world. This collection is in the library of the Department in Emerson Hall. All members of the University are invited to attend the meeting...
...years old, but it has already a membership of over ten million men and is spreading with incredible speed over the earth. Throughout Europe all the scientists and literary men of the younger school are socialists. Germany forty years ago, was poverty stricken and just emerging from the social conditions of the middle ages. Modern capitalizing was developing and there was much discontent among the laboring classes. As a remedy for these evils, the workingmen formed the socialist party. In England, successive royal commissions appointed by Parliament to investigate the grievances of the workmen, accomplished nothing. The working classes were...
...Shaw says that further progress under present conditions is impossible; we must educate men to cope with the problem of a new social organization...