Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Forty-third annual banquet of the Harvard Dental Alumni Association with social gathering and business meeting, at Young's Hotel, Boston...
...purpose of the Northfield Conference is to provide a reasonable, working Christianity for college men by practical addresses on religious, social and moral problems, by delegation and group meetings, and by personal talks with men of wide experience. The exercises of the morning will have this end in view, and the afternoons will be crowded with baseball, tennis, track contests, cross-country walks, boating and swimming. The great advantage of the Conference is the fellowship which results from the mixing of men from different colleges who have a common interest...
Eleven of the undergraduate Social Clubs have entered into an agreement with reference to elections, which is a pledge of their desire to co-operate in supporting the principles for which the Freshman Dormitories stand. One of the significant clauses of the agreement provides that "no club shall elect as a member any undergraduate before the fourth Monday after the opening of college in his Sophomore year, or before that time pledge or promise election, even by implication to such undergraduate;" other clauses forbid the taking of any individual pledge or promise to join a club before the Friday following...
...beginning of the Sophomore year and there was therefore no agreement to prevent canvassing in the Freshman year. The postponement of the elections protects the Freshman year completely and prevents the Freshmen from attaching undue importance on immediately becoming involved in the club system. Clubs at Harvard are purely social and in view of this the CRIMSON heartily agrees with the sentiment expressed in the following editorial which appears in the Alumni Bulletin...
...Freshman Dormitories are going to bring students into a contact with their classmates, much closer than any that has been possible heretofore. It is confidently hoped that the Dormitories will enrich the experience of the men who pass through them. It is likely that they will also intensify social consciousness. Therefore if the clubs were to invade each Freshman class and split it up into the elect and the non-elect, the chosen, the anxiously expectant and the hopelessly ignored, a tendency quite opposite to the purpose of the Dormitories would set at work. The agreement already guarantees that...