Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...leave in May and June to enter military service. This evening's festivity is of note as being the first smoker to be held at the University since the entrance of this country into the war. The smoker will also be the first of a series of war-time social functions which will be held by the different classes during the remainder of the College year...
Since the Student Council's decision in favor of class social functions on an economical scale for this year, the Freshmen have announced that plans for their first smoker are under consideration, and the members of 1919 have decided to hold the annual Junior Dance. Tomorrow evening, therefore, will mark the beginning of a series of informal and inexpensive social festivities in the University...
...times like these nothing could be more unfortunate. We are in a period of vast changes, not only political, but in large measure of infinite social importance. One looking ahead must indeed be over-awed by the very character of those future institutions, revolutionary and beyond imagination as they are--new international status, laws of private property totally unknown, strange governmental functions, unaccustomed relations between men, a society of which we today may have scarcely any conception. A great seething and confusion is about, a melting pot, into which the ideals, the aspirations, the hopes, and the passions...
...give opportunities for personal contact with men who are outstanding leaders in modern religious thought, but also to afford a chance for a few days of healthy recreation. With these ends in view the daily program will be arranged so that Bible and mission classes, and lectures by prominent social service leaders will take up the mornings and evenings, while the afternoons will be devoted to various sorts of athletics, such as intercollegiate competitions in baseball, track and tennis...
...Charge of Social Activities...