Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very busy about a great many other things. It is pretty hard to teach literature in schools to children who come from homes where a good book is never read. It is pretty hard to teach philosophy in a world where there is no taste for it in its social life. America is interested in other things. America has a social scheme which has very little recognition of what the way of understanding is. A second difficulty is that our school system is as yet not ready to give the proper preparation for college work. It has been hastily constructed...
...turning trifles into significant facts, sets forth the searing paradoxes which he constructed on a trip around the world featuring the Orient but including (and devastating) the U. S. The Scandinavian wanderers have caught uniquely well the healthy rural glow, the astounding civic progress and the insufferably"countrified" social life of Scandinavian...
...with Consuelo, his onetime Duchess, and Mrs. Belmont, her mother, and Mrs. Mary V. S. Tiffany, Consuelo's aunt, and Mrs. Lucy Jay, family friend, confirmed the following: In 1895, Consuelo Vanderbilt was secretly engaged to one Winthrop Rutherfurd. Her mother discovered so; commanded separation on grounds of social prestige. Consuelo demurred. Her mother threatened to shoot Mr. Rutherfurd, and go herself to the gallows; invited the young Duke of Marlborough to her home at Newport, where for two weeks he saw Consuelo. The Duke, departing for a U. S. tour, asked Consuelo's hand. Consuelo demurred...
...book is dedicated to W. B. Donham '98, Dean of the Business School, who in a short preface states that the completion of the dormitories has relieved the difficult situation by making possible a high type of social contact among the students. The book, appearing early in the year, will promote friendships during the rest of the college season. The association of names, the recognition of clubs and fraternities will aid considerably in maintaining a permanent record of the classes and class organizations. The volume, bound in red leather, contains the usual group and individual pictures, articles on the Business...
...England States; but, then, George might be bored. The Queen would no doubt want to be remembered to Mrs. Coolidge but such courtesies require only a brief time for despated. Certainly neither gentleman will open the question of debits or foreign trade--politics are taboo in polite social circles. It is a difficult situation when two parties of such different tastes as George of Buckingham and Windsor and Calvin of Washington and Plymouth get together--even over a telephone. But as it is there will probably he no trouble: central will, as usual, probably oblige with the wrong number...