Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walker's error. Mr. Hoover called Prohibition "a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose...
...seacoast cities of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Delray, Boynton, Jupiter and Stuart were glutted with wreckage. At Palm Beach many fastidiously designed homes (Stotesbury, Wanamaker, Frazier) became ugly shards of architecture. The seaside Royal Poinciana, famed hostelry of social idlers, was totally wrecked. The Breakers, newer, more substantial, lost the roofs of its north and south wings. But on the seacoast few lives were lost...
...Harvard Liberal Club, at 66 Winthrop St., Tuesday evening, October 2, at 8 o'clock. The principal speakers of the evening will be Powers Hapgood '21, husband of the Socialist candidate, Professor A. S. Coolidge '15 of the Department of Chemistry and Lincoin Fairley '23 of the Department of Social Ethics. Hapgood has been an active participant in the recent struggles over the Saceo Vanzetti case, and the later attempts of the United Mine Workers of America to prevent a wage cut in the soft coal fields...
This weakness in fundamentals is not the result of a warping of sound principles. The fault lies further back, in the groundwork of mind training. Social and economic environment, primary and secondary school criteria are contributing factors. Parents want their children to be educated, but they themselves have no true understanding of education. The best they can do is thus to put their children through an educative process--a process in which progress is measured by tangible milestones of years and figures. Passing of the final marks is the attainment of the ultimate goal. At no point must the youthful...
Among the unforgivable sins in the rigid social code of the University, overdevelopment of the acquisitive abilities is not the least. The touching elbows of scholars must be wellworn. Not so with the institutions of the University. Their acquisitiveness is free of aggressiveness, and when they grow rich it is in a way unlike any other prosperity that is. The University feels the obligations of new wealth. It is humbled, as at the sight of something greater than itself, and proud, as at an enduring confidence...