Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent and regrettable death by his own hands of a Princeton sophomore raises the number of student suicides since January to twenty-six. In suite of the fact that his action was probably due in the main to ill health, and can hardly be said to indict Princeton's social or educational system, the already much discussed whys and wherefores of the epidemic have revived...
Many and various have been the theories as to the causes for these deaths. On them have been prepared general indictments of our whole psychology, philosophy, and social system. Clergymen lay the blame on materialism, lack of religious training, breakdown of family life. Others lay it to incomplete education, as evidence of the dangers of half-knowledge. Freudians smugly smile, and talk of repressions. There is a general "I told you so" air about them all. Whatever way it is regarded, though, the situation seems to cast reflection upon college education...
...Religion as a Factor in Social Adaptation", Professor Craver, Sever 17, Economics...
...more pungent report to make from his anatomical laboratory findings. He told it to the College of Physicians as they dined. Since 1913 he has been measuring the brains of corpses brought to the refrigerating room of Western Reserve medical school. These cadavers had been poor people, suicides, social derelicts...
...Cleveland average fell to 1,410 c. c. "During that [War] year none but the veriest fool was left destitute; the others were all in the Army or earning good wages in civilian life. . . . In 1919, when industrial stagnation set in, the average brain volume of our social failures rose to 1,520 c.c. That looked serious to us and with great interest we read the prognosis of bankers and captains of industry regarding the future. According to predictions the situation improved in 1920, and our mean brain volume sank once more to near the pre-War level...