Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Somewhere in the world there will be a place for the cerise red flannels, of this the social service men are certain. Once red, possibly crimson, this relie of a more cantious era of students yet retains enough color to complete the regalia of a Senegambian chief of comfort the heart of some Polynesian pauper...
Members of the football team and social service workers are in especial demand as orators for New England gatherings, according to a statement yesterday by officials of the Phillips Brooks House. W. N. Bump '28, Chairman of the Bureau, receives daily five or six communications asking for Harvard men to speak on various topics at local meetings. Many of these letters come from districts as far removed as Maine and Vermont and enclose train fare for the itinerant elocutionist...
...textiles and knit goods, it held its predominance until shortly after the War. Since then it has not progressed as have other sections of the country. It has even retrogressed in some instances. Chairman Owen D. Young of General Electric pictures this New England as the result of a social, industrial, political snobbishness. New Englanders go about in high stiff collars, each tending his own business. They should take off their collars and work together.- Such is his diagnosis. The prescription includes the pooling of electric power resources in all the six New England states (including the Passamaquody tidal power...
Unsocial Engineers. Not enough social insight nor responsibility, concluded the Society for Promotion of Engineering Education last week, among other charges laid to U. S. engineering students and faculties. The report followed a three-year investigation in the U. S. and Europe, at a cost of $200,000. Recommendations: 1) more study of the humanities and economics; 2) elimination, by stricter entrance examination, of misfits; 3) provision for better teachers...
...larger circulations and a new vitality. Brilliant covers and a lack of pictures have attracted fresh cohorts and won back many of the deserters. The chief factor, however, has been the growing belligerency and inquisitiveness of the magazines; no longer do they remain discreetly silent on religious, political and social questions, fearing that they might lose a few subscribers through lack of tact. Instead they have made their columns open forums for intelligent, liberal and sometimes radical opinion...