Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Religious and social-service activities center in the Phillips Brooks House. Opportunity is given the Freshman to do philanthropic work of various kinds, teaching foreigners, conducting boys clubs, and other volunteer work. A number of religious organizations also have headquarters in the Brooks House, inviting the attention of the first-year...
...Liberal Club invites men interested in current movements in polities, international relations, and the seven arts. Speakers address the Club on a variety of topics. Other groups enable the Freshman to extend his academic interests into social fields. The Cercle Francais, and the Circolo Italiano give the linguists a chance to congregate, while the Classical Club, the philosophical Club, and the Mathematical Club offer opportunities for the exchange of ideas on these subjects...
Associate Professor C. I. Lewis '05, chairman of the Division of Philosophy will be on sabbatical leave during the year 1929-30. Professor R. C. Cabot '89, chairman of the Department of Social Ethics, and W. Y. Elliott, tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics, and Assistant Professor of Government, will be on leaves of absence during the year...
...from the football coach and captain, ecstacy and despair over triumph and defeat in athletics have faded into a dim haze in the subconscious mind, the class will gradually realize that with the beginning of their Sophomore year they will be a part of one of the most important social experiments ever attempted in American education...
...present there is nothing quite so vague as the House Plan. Reduced to its simplest definition it will be an attempt to continue, to a greater or less degree according to how well it works, the conditions under which the Freshmen supposedly live at present. The lack of social life in the upper class dormitories is going to be corrected by the erection of a group of buildings, divided into separate units in which the upper classmen will live. These individual units will have highly organized activities which are being worked out at present by Professors Greenough and Coolidge...