Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation here at Princeton is a complicated one in that the clubs have two functions. They are eating clubs and they are social clubs. It was seen as early us 1908 that the clubs had developed in unforeseen manner and with no controlling influence. If Princeton authorities made no efforts to provide proper food or proper surroundings for students but merely furnished classrooms and faculty, the problem would hardly be one for discussion. The eating clubs would be entirely independent and a law unto themselves...
From both an economic and social standpoint, fewer and larger clubs seem desirable. A number of clubs, of course, have elaborate establishments. But a number of others are faced with the necessity of building new club houses to keep up with the competition. Some are not too comfortable financially. Would it not be possible to effect the consolidation of two clubs into one with larger membership? Might not conditions later make further consolidations feasible." At first thought this may seem preposterous to alumni who have sentimental attachment to their own particular club. But these alumni try to kept sentiment...
...problem of undergraduate clubs, a moving one two years ago when the Student Council considered the problem, has since diminished in importance. Harvard club growth has been in the direction of lessening the importance of the club as a social factor. The club that is little more than a dining place has come into being. The rising tide of study, symbolized in such ninth wave as the interest in the English literature contest and the success of the Reading Period, has overwhelmed the playboy except in that brief period between September and October of the Freshman year and club life...
...recommendations, which are elsewhere printed on this page. The assisement which has preceded them is notable for its more than superficial resemblance to the similar evaluations made by the Harvard Student Council. The assets are: (1) The clubs at present afford the only solution for feeding the upperclassmen. (2) Social advantages (3) Their innocuous position in student politics and activities; the liabilities are: (1) Failure to feed the 25 percent who are not elected. (2) Irresponsibility in matters of expense (3) Loss of time during the period of bidding (4) Cliques of preparatory school groups, "with little reference...
...Spauling '17, assistant professor of Education in the University, is listed among those taking part in the instruction of graduates and former students of Boston University's school of religious education and social service now assembled in the school's "educational institute...