Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...followed out think of what the country will become. No one will know whether his next door neighbor is what he is thought to be or not. No one will speak to anyone else, unless a proper introduction is made, and unless both parties are on the same social plane...
Figures compiled from the 1929 Class Album, which made its appearance last week, show that 347 out of 909 men in the present Senior Class are members of social clubs of one sort or another. The remaining 563 members of the class are not listed as belonging to any organization of the purely social variety. While a few men may have forgotten to include their clubs in the Album life blanks the number is not large. It is certain, at least, that the club membership of the graduating class is not less than the figure given above...
Under the designation social club are included waiting clubs, final clubs, semifinal clubs, fraternities, and all other organizations whose aim is primarily social. Such activities clubs as the Dramatic Club, Glee Club, Instrumental Clubs, and Harvard Band Club are not considered in this category. Publications like the Lampoon and Advocate and honorary societies like Phi Beta Kappa are also excluded...
...fact that 38.3 per cent or nearly two-fifths of the Senior Class are in social clubs, as shown by the Album life-blanks, indicates that the proportion of club members at Harvard has varied little in the last few years. A Student Council committee on clubs estimated in May, 1927, that somewhat more than one third of the upperclassmen were in clubs. The fact that more Seniors than Juniors or Sophomores are included in clubs points to an essential agreement between the two calculations...
...attempt to bring the Union more closely into touch with the desires and needs of its members. With the progress of the House Plan the eating arrangements of the Union will attract a smaller patronage, and it is hoped that there will be an increased emphasis on its social activities. In this direction undergraduate management should prove a useful innovation...