Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world-famed professors as Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, Greek Scholar Paul Shorey, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Theologian Shailer Mathews, Latinist Gordon Jennings Laing, English Littérateur Robert Morse Lovett. Physically the University of Chicago is among the hugest in the U. S. Buildings started last year included a Social Sciences Building, the Bobs Roberts Memorial Hospital for Children, the George Herbert Jones Chemistry Building, a new $1,500,000 power house. When President Hutchins assumes his duties he will find completed several new dormitories. He will see students walking into a new Rockefeller-endowed chapel and a new Hall...
...defense to call any of a large group of witnesses who were at hand to testify as to the reasons why the Medical Review of Reviews had first published the article, or why the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., churches, Union Theological Seminary, and various social organizations had distributed thousands of copies of The Sex Side of Life during the past ten years...
...newspaper is independent simply because it is free of direct financial connection with such private interests. Even when a newspaper is independent of power companies, public utilities, advertisers and the like, it has achieved only the preliminaries of freedom. There remains the vague but vast force of personal and social and official influences against which really independent newspapers have to be continually on guard. It is here that the representative American newspapers, on the whole the most independent body of newspapers in the world, have day by day to vindicate their independence...
Bribery is easy enough to resist, threats it is a pleasure to defy, but the influence of friendships, of social connections with officials, or party associations, remains a daily problem for the newspaper man. Inevitably he comes into intimate personal contact with political leaders and men of affairs and relationships of confidence and sympathy grow up which it is difficult and often extremely embarrassing to disregard. It may be easier to defy a corporation than a golfing partner at the country club...
...questions which have been raised as to their place in undergraduate social life, namely, whether separate fraternities should be identified with separate quadrangles or should serve as common meeting grounds between the different quadrangles, we decidedly favor the latter suggestion. Fraternities by and large are too hopelessly identified with individual schools at present. It is only natural for embryonic undergraduates to hear of the merits of one fraternal bond and instinctively gravitate toward it. To limit a fraternity to drawing its members from one quadrangle would tend only to aggrevate the present condition...