Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year report of the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House shows that since the beginning of the year 279 men have been enlisted in some form of social work. A large number of these men, about 130, are engaged in teaching foreigners and workingmen and leading boys' clubs in Cambridge; the remainder are working under the settlement houses in Boston. The scope of the work done by these volunteers is very wide, ranging from teaching elementary subjects, such as English, mathematics, and civics, to leading groups of boys who are interested in athletics, music, dramatics or scouting. Many...
...good family. Perhaps the general cause of science might prosper more in this country if there were greater co-operation and less provincial isolation among the various groups of specialists. Thus the great meeting in New York this week is marked by the absence of all the social science associations, which meet in Columbus, Ohio. The separation between the social and the physical scientists can surely not be of any real advantage to either. At any rate the great outstanding and deplorable fact is that on the vital questions requiring their co-operation, e.g. the effect of immigration...
...great many critics of American higher education would take this instance as typical of the proverbial Harvard indifference. There is still considerable justification for their opinion. Yet during the last two years Americans, and American students in particular, have undoubtedly tended to face more seriously the intellectual and social problems which they encounter. This sudden Renaissance is part of the backwash of war. It is witnessed at Harvard by the increased interest that students are beginning to take in national and international questions. The preparedness agitation, the International Polity Club movement, the excitement occasioned by the elections, are all signs...
...nature come from Harvard University to the effect that there is less smoking and pool-playing, and less purchasing of reading matter as well. The returns are from the Harvard Union, and they may simply be taken to indicate a decline in the patronage of that large and democratic social organization. But the Union is representative of the undergraduate microcosm. Life in the larger world is more serious than it was before August, 1914. "The cigarette," wrote George Frederick Watts, "is the handmaid of idleness," and the diminishing consumption of cigarettes may mean that Harvard less faithfully answers the often...
This December has witnessed a French Revolution of Lilliputian dimensions, with Committees of Safety, Tribunals and Robespierres appearing to defend strange principles and candidates of questionable qualifications for governing this diminutive republic of four hundred citizens. Social and political factions have sprung from superficial causes of difference hitherto unknown. Campaigning, electioneering and forming of combinations have been rife. In fact the supposedly mature, intelligent Seniors of Harvard University have descended to the low, despicable methods of a well-conducted Tammany Hall election, in order to elect twenty-two class officers...