Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Fenn '84 will give short addresses of welcome, and Rev. Dr. De Normandie, representing the Visiting Committee of the Divinity School, will also speak. Short speeches will be made by several men representing the graduates and students of the school. After the addresses there will be an informal social meeting with refreshments...
This winter the Social Service Entertainment Troupe Committee will give, as in past years, a number of entertainments, free of charge, to various philanthropic institutions in the vicinity of Cambridge. These entertainments consist of vocal and instrumental music, reading and sleight-of-hand performances. A simple informality is maintained and no great ability is required of the performers. Men who are willing to take part and can give one or two evenings a month to this service are requested to notify M. Allen at the Phillips Brooks House...
...Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, spoke in Sanders Theatre last evening before a large audience on "Some Problems of Great Cities." President Eliot introduced him as a holder of one of the most venerable and oldest ecclesiastical offices in the world, a social worker of great success, and a sympathizer with all classes and conditions...
President Eliot said, in closing, that one of our greatest problems here is that millions feel that all churches and all religions have been used to justify and compensate for the social wrongs of this world. These people want their rights now, not later, and therefore belong to no church. On the other hand, we have certain advantages in this country which are possessed by few others; for example, the universal use of voluntary associations for religious and charitable purposes. Last of all we should aim for the unity of spirit which we are how seeking here, and the goal...
...there is another side--the social side--which should not be ignored. However strongly we may oppose making the dormitory a unit in University life, it cannot be denied that it is desirable that men living in the same dormitory should become acquainted with each other in some natural way. The diversity of interests and the mingling of classes and members of professional schools in many dormitories create a tendency against this, and it is such innovations as dormitory rowing which, when kept in their proper position, will be most effective in combatting this tendency. We trust that the various...