Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...social side of fencing is sustained not by the Harvard Fencing Club founded in 1889 and since dissolved, but by the Harvard Fencers' Club, founded in 1898, which is showing a steady growth...
...sorry that pending examinations kept so many undergraduates from Mr. Noyes's reading last night. Such is the rarity of addresses of great literary and poetic merit that they ought to be received with at least as much enthusiasm as the hoard of political and social lectures which occur so frequently at more favorable times. We do not by any means begrudge the Cambridge public the opportunity to hear our distinguished visitors, but we do bemoan the fact that so few undergraduates care enough for literature to take an hour from their work or leisure to hear a truly notable...
...fall into the hands of God than into the hands of Spain." Fighting now is done with great soulless machines. There is no hope or purpose or meaning in it. "War has lost the vitality that it once had; it is a dead thing, a peril to the social body...
...report on the Social Service work done by Harvard men in the past year shows that the University still leads in the number of men engaged in this branch of collegiate endeavor. In general the nature of the work done has been the same as in former years. There has, however, been more differentiation and diversification making it possible to reach more differentiation and diversification making it possible to reach more remote conditions than when all the workers were massed on one or two problems. More intimate study of particular phases and situations has been the result: Especially significant...
There is one particular detail of the report which attracts our attention and that is the fact that the majority of the men in social service are Sophomores and Freshmen. This condition may be explained as due in most cases to the increasing demands on time made by other activities towards the end of the college career. In some instances it is doubtless due to a frank cooling of ardor for the work after the enthusiasm of the first two years. This we do not regard as an alarming fact. Enthusiasm and sincerity are absolutely essential to real worth...