Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Tibbetts '17, Social Service Secretary of Phillips Brooks House in 1916-17, will preside at a conference of about 35 settlement house workers of metropolitan Boston in the Shepard Room of the House tonight at 7.45 o'clock...
...questions to be discussed center on the proposition of making the social service work of University men more effective than it has been in the past. The conclusions reached will have an important bearing on the action to be taken at a meeting of undergraduates planned for next week. The needs of the various boys' clubs and settlement houses will be set forth, and plans will be made to establish some method of systematizing the work. It is possible that a training class in social service methods may be organized for the benefit of members of the University...
Previous to this meeting, W. H. Shiner '18 will lead the first conference of a discussion group devoted to social welfare in the Noble Room at 7 o'clock. Mr. Shiner was for some time a Y. M. C. A. service as a secretary at Bumkin Island. The group will follow the methods pursued by last year's groups but will consider more especially welfare problems...
...left for Paris on December 11, with Dean Haskins, and Professors Lord and Dixon, as members of the United States Peace Commission, is now the head of a committee detached from the Peace Commission for service at Vienna. The purpose of this commission is to study the political, social and economic situation in Austria, Hungary, and the surrounding States. It is expected to arrive in Vienna either today or tomorrow, and will have its headquarters in Vienna, with sub-agencies in Prague, Budapest, Agram and other places...
...have both been extended from three to four years, so that now all undergraduate courses are to be normally four years in length. The Sheffield scientific school has been placed on a different basis by the cessation of the so-called "select course" in language, literature, history, and the social and natural sciences, and will offer only the technical course...