Word: socialism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months ago civil strife broke out in the social ranks at Princeton. An influential group of sophomores announced that they would not accept invitations to the senior societies and declared war on the entire club system as extravagant, demoralizing and undemocratic. Since then more than seventy of their classmates have taken the same stand. On last Wednesday the struggle entered a new phase, when seven prominent seniors resigned from their clubs and joined the insurgent sophomores, as an open and vigorous protest against the system which they could not reform from the inside...
...President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of the University of California: "When it comes to choosing officers for the reserves, we Americans cannot base our choice as Europe does, on social caste or the possession of goods. We must turn to the colleges. Natural leadership of some sort there must be, and that leadership the higher education will provide...
...above figures do not tell the whole story, since some men have taken up the work without the knowledge of the Social Service Secretary. For example, there are more than 15 men teaching Sunday school. The above figures, consequently, include only those men who have been enlisted by the Social Service Committee. An important aspect of the work is the fact that more than 130 men are doing social service work right here in Cambridge...
...various settlement houses in Boston and Cambridge. About 50 men are engaged in this branch of the work. Speakers have also been sent out to address schools, churches, Y. M. C. A.'s and clubs. All of the above activities are under the immediate charge of the Social Service Committee...
...need is still greater, however, for more volunteers, as teachers, as club leaders, and as entertainers. W. I. Tibbets '17, Social Service Secretary, will be glad to meet anyone interested at Phillips Brooks House any morning between 8.15 and 10 o'clock...