Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Council tonight, doubtless for a vote of that body. The issue is serious. On the one side is the welfare of the Union and its service to the University. There is no doubt of the fact that universal membership would be the salvation of the Union, both from a social and a financial standpoint. There is also no doubt that the present condition of affairs cannot and should not be allowed to drag out wearily to a catastrophe. Compulsory membership, however, faces a difficulty which even its strongest advocates cannot overlook: it practically means raising the tuition fee above...
That trade unionism has gained a foothold in almost every field of labor is emphasized by a recent development in the theatrical world. Though actors have previously considered their profession one of the arts, and therefore on a social plane above labor organization, recently they voted to submit a proposition to affiliate themselves with the American Federation of Labor. Since actors as well as motormen must protect themselves from possible encroachments of employers, the Actors' Equity Association convened simultaneously in five large cities, and voted unanimously to consider in May the proposal to unite with the largest labor organization...
...illustrated by the magazine, "Challenge." It is destructive radicalism. In the April number, recently issued, one of the articles, "The Thinking Bayonet," declares that a revolution is necessary before national preparedness can become a reality. Adopting a socialist view, the writer, tears down and rakes over our whole economic, social, and political system, merely to leave it in that condition. The importance of universal education is stressed, and an elaborate, impossible scheme is set forth for a new system, but aside from this, no methods for improvement are suggested. The present measures of the government for preparedness are denounced...
George Henry Tufts, assistant in English; Richard Stockton Merriam, assistant in Social Ethics; Thomas Henry Clark, assistant in Geology; John Valentine Van Sickle, William Edward Cox, Oscar Baxter Ryder, Norman John Silberling, Carleton Kenneth Lewis, and Zenas Clark Dickinson, assistants in Economics; Fletcher Steele, assistant in Landscape Architecture; William Edward Masterson, assistant in Public Speaking; Carl Eugen Guthe, Jr., as Austin Teaching Fellow in Anthropology; Philip Green Wright, Edmond Earle Lincoln, Frederic Earnest Richter, and Arthur Eli Monroe were made instructors in Economics; William Arthur Berridge, in Mathematics; Howard Rollin Patch and Frederic Schenck, in English; Edward Ballantine, in Music...
...engaging the attention not only of this country, but of the world, an editorial, and a group of reviews, literary and dramatic. The range and versatility here exhibited should be pondered by those who are apt to think of the life of the undergraduate as overwhelmingly physical and social. In quality, too, the general level is gratifying; there is nothing conspicuously poor, and a good deal that is thoroughly praiseworthy...