Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Most of the positions are in Turkey and India, but they furnish a wide field of choice. The range of subjects is also large. The experience to be gained is one of the principal features of the work, as the teachers will be expected to take part in the social side of the student activities as well as the mere routine. The term of service varies from two to four years, according to the position, and the salary amounts to from $400 to $600 a year in addition to living quarters and travelling expenses to and from the field...
Self has three purposes,--the physical or inward health, the social or goodness, and the universal or love. The true course of self-will is to effect a harmony of these purposes. "Self finds its end," concluded Mr. Tagore, "in the repose of beauty, the action of goodness, and the union of love...
...lectures already given in the Union this year will be that by Mr. H. Roswell Bates tonight upon "The New York Underworld." Mr. Bates, by reason of his long service as director of the famous Spring Street Settlement House, in New York, is peculiarly qualified to discuss the social problems presented by the "underworld" of the metropolis. His frank and vivid descriptions of the appalling evils arising from the congested life of the tenements have interested and aroused large audiences of college men at the Northfield Conferences, at Yale, at Princeton, and at other colleges. His wide knowledge of social...
...influence of Harvard men in the realm of letters and scholarship is well set forth in the current American Review of Reviews which devotes several of its pages to a review of the recent authoritative books on social and economic subjects, and to some of the worthy works in the sphere of literature. In connection with the problem of railroads, the review points out that the whole subject of railroad rates and regulations is covered with great thoroughness and clarity in a volume of Professor William Z. Ripley. Among the works treating industrial questions, is noted as worthy of commendation...
...lecture in the Social Problems series by Dr. J. A. Holmes, director of the United States Bureau of Mines, which was postponed, will be given in Emerson D on Friday, April 4 at 4.30 o'clock. Dr. Holmes's subject will be "Some of the Social and Economic Problems of the Mining Industry." The lecture will be open to the public...