Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following is an editorial reprinted from the Daily Princetonian of March 31 commenting on a report of the Social Service Conference held at Brooks' House on March...
...Daily Princetonian has it that Harvard is yielding to the "shibboleth of commercialized undergraduate activities:" This is due to an unfortunate interpretation of a discussion held at a social service conference in Brooks House some time ago. There Mr. Philip Davis, director of the Civic Service House, Boston, suggested that social service work be credited toward a degree by the Faculty. The proposition was at once voted down by the undergraduates present, and there is no more likelihood of its being entertained here than that the work of managers will be recognized. Entirely aside from the point made...
...suffragists, is a grand-daughter of Henry Clay. She was elected to the vice-presidency of the National Suffrage Association quite recently, and soon became one of its most active and influential leaders. She has spoken for her cause all over the country and is very prominent in social reform measures in her native state, Kentucky, having for many years held the presidency of the Civic League of Lexington, a non-partisan association of men and women which interests itself in reform legislation. While in this office, she was largely instrumental in obtaining the passage of the compulsory schooling...
About fifteen of the leaders spoke of their own experiences and offered criticisms of the work now being done by Harvard men. The current feeling of the whole conference showed an added increase of interest in the social service work and that the men were applying theory to practical problems...
...editor-in-chief of Harper's Weekly, which has come to be known as the official organ of feminism upon which the speaker will touch. In addition to his work as a writer, Mr. Hapgood has distinguished himself by his vigorous fight for the improvement of political and social conditions...