Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Previous increases at Harvard have apparently had no effect on the character of the student body; students have continued to come from the same kinds of homes with the same variety of social, financial, and intellectual backgrounds as before; and more important still there has been no diminution in the number of applicants for admission...
...Russia's Social and Intellectual Development in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century," Professor Karpovich, Sever...
...York's Sirovich, who is a doctor, mixed professional data with social theory, saying: ". . . In my humble opinion the greatest evil of this country today is overindulgence in every line of endeavor . . . drunkenness swinging the pendulum to one apex while Prohibition carries it to the heights of the other. Temperance, therefore, should be the avenue we should travel in approaching this great and momentous problem. . . . Shall we have our Government act as a Lucretia Borgia of medieval days, who poisoned all who came into intimate contact with her? . . . I am in favor of taking the Government...
More evidence, if more is needed, that the undergraduate at Harvard is becoming also, and primarily, a student, may be drawn from the serious decline this year in the number of men who have reported for social service at the Phillips Brooks House. Descending from a peak of over four hundred in 1921 to half that amount last year, the number dropped this fall, according to Mr. McTurnan, the social service secretary, to 160 men. Despite all that has been done to interest students in work that is said to pay richly in human experience, the thirty-five settlement houses...
...clergy are exempt from being drafted for war.' Also they often get ten per cent discount on merchandise and they travel for half-fare on the railroads. 10. 'They are so favored by the kindly attention of wealthy and leading parishioners that their children enter the highest social life.' 11. They are often able to save money, especially when, 'through the kindness of financial leaders who are on their church boards,' they are let in on the ground floor on good investments. 12. The pension fund (Episcopal) will soon insure a comfortable income...