Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the first week of the College term the regular activities of the Phillips Brooks House Association get fairly under way. The Social Service Committee helps all men who are interested in doing philanthropic work to find some outlet for their interest. Under this committee about 200 Harvard men annually do work varying in nature from coaching boys' basketball teams to teaching English to foreigners. The Speakers Bureau and the Deputation Committee furnish students to speak at preparaotry schools, churches, and various and sundry kinds of meetings and dinners. Thus the student's point of view is presented...
...outstanding faults of the entire fraternity system. In reality it is nothing of the kind. Men who are to enter into the business world must mingle to some extent with every kind of people but it is equally true that most of their business and social relations will be with a particular group of people...
...professor of education at the University of Birmingham, to say that the best brains of the U. S. are attracted to business and the second and third best to the professions. But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England. He wants English young men to study for business. Present British industrialists he holds in contempt. Many lack wits enough to be army corporals, he exaggerated, exasperated...
...Treuberg, 58, famed European adventuress; by Edgar Beese, German flier, who committed suicide at the same time; in Berlin. Born in 1870, a tailor's daughter, Elizabeth Uhl became a wealthy, fashionable courtesan, celebrated in Continental capitals and on the Riviera. In 1911 she won long-sought social standing by her marriage to Count von Treuberg, a bankrupt naval officer. She had arranged to pay him 25,000 marks, but never did so and the marriage was later annulled. Aviator Beese's father, mother and sister all were suicides before...
...opening of which he was an entrepreneur, yielded $300,000,000 in gold and silver within six years. Buttressed with wealth, Mrs. Mackay assailed San Francisco society, made but slight impress. She traveled to France. There her dark beauty, wit, enviable taste and prodigious fortune made her a social enchantress. Speaking flawless French, acquired from her mother, she was received in the almost impenetrable salons of the Faubourg St. Germain in Paris. Her Nevada brand of horsemanship, exhibited in the Bois du Boulogne, was the despair of French equestriennes. Meissonier painted her portrait. Ludovic Halevy portrayed...