Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of the long recognized desirability of arousing greater interest throughout the University in contemporary social and political movements the fact remains that the active interest taken by members of the University in the public affairs of the day is far less than ought to be the case. Among undergraduates, for instance, the amount of leisure time consumed in the mere discussion of political affairs is much less than is the case, for example, with the students of an English university. The causes for this condition are perhaps due, in some degree at least, to inherent differences...
...Social service conference in Phillips Brooks House...
...meeting of all students interested in social service has been called at Phillips Brooks House next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Prominent Massachusetts charity workers will outline the field for service among the poor and foreign of Boston, and several undergraduate speakers will point out some of the opportunities for such work...
Professor Richard Cabot, of the Medical School, author of "What Men Live By," will be the principal speaker of the evening. Professor Cabot is among the foremost American authorities on both the practical and theoretical sides of social service, and will present some of his views on local conditions Tuesday. Mr. R. W. Kelso, Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Charities, will tell stories gained from personal experiences with social problems, and will enumerate some of the fields for student volunteer work...
...describe boys' club work as he has found it during two years at the Roxbury Brotherhood House. R. H. Kettell '14 will speak on the business of the entertainment troupes from the University which visit the Boston and Cambridge settlement houses through the winter, while L. A. Morgan '17, social service secretary of Phillips Brooks House, will map out the work for the year. W. B. Pirnie '15, Chairman of the Social Service Committee, will preside...