Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Houston had beauty, Houston had distinction. It would not lack the authority of age and experience. From New York came Elizabeth Marbury, 72 years old by grace of exactly a week, vigorous social worker and business woman. Delegate Marbury could claim precedence, if she liked, over California's Gertrude Franklin Atherton, who will not be 71 until next Hallowe'en. Delegates wondered at the youthful appearance of Mrs. Atherton, ascribed it variously to the California climate, to her busy literary life, to her intense interest in the problems of rejuvenation...
...looked again and discovered also in the loose and undisciplined Hoover ranks, in addition to half-ruined guerrillas that were beginning to pluck up hope, an assortment of poets, prophets, hymn singers, professional reformers, unclassified uplifters, novelists, Federal office holders, reformed bootleggers, Anti-Saloon League superintendents, society leaders, social climbers, lame ducks and efficiency experts. This would have dismayed an ordinary general. But Jim Good is not an ordinary general. He took hold of this crowd and patiently instilled into its mixed elements of fanaticism and craftiness, its curiously contrasting elements of idealism and greed, the dependable, cooperative discipline...
This democratic country: let us not forget that we live in a nation where democracy is the enduring keynote of social and political life. And that brings us to the larger question--has Harvard fitted us to live usefully in a democratic country, to serve as leaders of a democratic people? We hear comparatively little today of democracy, and much of big business; but the United States will not be ruled forever by the men who have money. The time may be not yet, but the day will come when those who exploit the people shall no longer deceive them...
Today marks the formal conclusion of the University's academic and cultural year; tomorrow witnesses the informal climax to Harvard's 1927-1928 athletic and social calendar. Today all eyes are upon the 1884 men who, with sombre intellectual mien, accept the University's tribute to their various degrees of scholastic endeavor. Tomorrow the stage and scenery undergo a metamorphosis, and all eyes shift to the Thames, teeming with color, and focus upon the eight men on whom depend coveted victory or bitter defeat. With one tremendous overnight sweep the pendulum swings from the sobriety of the Commencement exercises...
...they do the antipodes of the life of the University in its entirety, are nevertheless typical and like most extremes they meet. The University world revolves on a substantial axis which places the academic at one pole, the athletic at the other, and successfully links them together by the social medium. Comparisons appear particularly odious here, but at no time during the college year are the two almost diametrically opposite sides placed in a more revealing juxtaposition and permitted to illustrate more admirably the fluctuation in the universal graduate and undergraduate mind. For, while there are some whose interest...