Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual spring social service dinner and conference will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union Thursday evening April 5, from 6.15 to 8.15 o'clock...
...reasonable." This is determined by balancing all the interests of society involved and determining whether the preponderant effect of the act is such that any generalization resulting from sustaining it will open an unobstructed way for attack by the legislature upon a fundamental condition of the existence of the social order. The performance of this balancing process is a technique as well as the application of a legalistic formula. It clearly involves some conception of the fundamentals of the social structure...
Against the validity of the act is the fundamental principle of the social order that industry and commerce shall be run by managers competitively selected and wielding the power which comes from the control of privately owned property rather than by the flats of legislators politically influenced and selected. The fact that the act fixes wages instead of leaving it to the free contract of the parties violates this principle. On the other hand, it is equally a fundamental principle of the social order that information shall be obtainable for use by the government, the parties in interest...
...single fact which gives the Act its predominant effect as an effort to secure information by experiment. The predominant effect of the Act, therefore, is such that sustaining it will not open any unobstructed way for attack by the legislature upon any fundamental condition of the existence of the social order. The decision does not in the least tend to establish that wage fixing acts are "due processes of law." The dissenting judges in performing the process of balancing the interests must have regarded the predominant effect of the Act as one which substituted the legislative flat for the freedom...
...oldest social club in Harvard has broken a precedent which has stood for over a half-century. On account of the uncertainty of the national situation the Hasty Pudding Club has cancelled the production of this year's play. For a month or more the members have given their time for daily rehearsals, and now they have been willing to see their efforts wasted, and to forego the enjoyment of the later performances. It is a patriotic move and one to be highly commended. It is a full and sufficient proof of the Pudding's worth...