Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are over 400 men in all taking active part in social service work, and 200 more who take part occasionally, making a total of 600. The good which such a large number of men can accomplish later on as a result of the beginnings made at college can hardly be overestimated...
There have been 130 men who have had weekly teaching appointments, a gain of 6 over last year. The majority of these have helped at the Prospect Union, the Cambridge Social Union, and the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. P. H. Stafford '14 has had charge of those teaching at the latter place...
...Report of the Social Service Secretary of Phillips Brooks House shows that the past year has been one of steady progress in its field of activity. In the beginning, one should consider the significance not merely of the actual work accomplished, but of its great value as a means of broadening the views of the undergraduate concerning his relation to his fellow...
There is no harm in mere numbers, for the number of immigrants in the United States is not excessive, nor is the volume of our immigration directly responsible for any evils of our social and industrial conditions; and consequently the limitation of numbers by the literacy test would not solve our social, economic and industrial problems. Our re- sources and industries, moreover, need more labor to develop them. Any decided restriction of immigration would greatly increase our cost of living and raise both federal and local taxes...
Immigratien has unduly aggravated our social, political and economic problem. The recent immigrant shows a marked tendency to congregate in the slums of our cities. Out of this congestion there has arisen a disproportionate amount of crime, vice and insanity among the foreign born. In the economic field the immigrant has lowered the standard of living, retarded the rise in vages, and added to the problem of the unemployed. The illiteracy test will materially better these conditions by excluding a large proportion of the unskilled laborers from Southern and Eastern--Europe...