Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...place for holding mass meetings, smokers, class dinners, and for hearing prominent speakers and lecturers, the Union's large Living Room has proved exceptionally adequate; as a social club for the entire University, the Union has never succeeded. Its Dining Room has seldom been crowded, and its Library, which comprises some 13,000 volumes, has been unappreciated quite out of proportion to its scope. Even the college papers, which have maintained offices in the building, have gradually deserted their former haunts, preferring, no doubt, an atmosphere less heavily surcharged with the musty odor characteristic of disuse...
...data, the derivation of an application to our own problem; and then (2) a campaign to gain the widespread interest in the Union, the popularity, which will be its sustaining power. This would mean more entertainments of general appeal, better eating arrangements; in short, more comprehensive adaptability to the social needs of the College as a whole, whatever they...
...Engineering students are on the same footing as students in Harvard College in respect to dormitories, clubs, athletics and social activities, except that they will have less time for such matters. For a few months the work of the school will be carried on at a disadvantage, a condition to be found in most institutions at present. Pierce Hall will again be available for the school; the laboratory equipment now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be restored or made fully available, and the teachers now on leave will return. The work will soon be on a normal basis...
Would it contradict the spirit in which the building was erected to propose that it should form a social link between the students and their instructors? Complaint has been constantly made that the relations between Faculty and undergraduates have not been sufficiently close. Could not the Union be used to improve these relations? This suggestion, however, we make in passing. The point is that something must be done to reconstruct an institution which has been and could still become an agent of much good in the community...
...meeting was in charge of G. C. Barclay '19, chairman of the Social Service Committee...