Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evident that most of the Harvard Club presidents have been convinced that the "terrible individualism" of Harvard students and the great size of the University has produced a rift in undergraduate social solidarity which can only be remedied by such an attractive panacea as the House Plan theoretically provides. Most of the favorable statements are made by men who have been out of College over twenty years. These prominent alumni admit that they and their friends are not in touch with undergraduate social life. Still, if such alarming conditions as the House Plan promises to ameliorate really exist today, they...
...authoritarian hierarchy of social groups, which is thus made part of the Italian governmental machinery, is often decried as syndicalism. Whether this can be maintained when the corporations are made into creatures of the central political authorities (since they depend upon these authorities for recognition) is doubtful to me. It might with more justification be maintained that they bring about a rigid bureaucratization of the social strata, which elsewhere are left more or less to their own council and initiative. To some extent this tendency to governmentalize the 'interest groups' is to be found in all modern states. But what...
...Cabinet who are selected by the executive board of the Brooks House, will be announced shortly after the election of officers. These men include the heads of the Law, Dental, Medical, and Graduate Societies and the various undergraduate committees that carry on the work of the organization, the Social Service Committee, the Foreign Student Committee, the Chapel Committee, the University Committee, and the Speakers Bureau...
Room most certainly exists for an undergraduate socialist publication. Free from the stress and competition of the business world, the years in college provide an excellent background for men who wish to make a serious economic and social study. In the student section of the socialist movement one might hope to find a blending of youthful idealism and careful thinking that would bring a journal of opinion to a high standard. Discussions in such a medium should be by and for undergraduates, and of an original turn, uncolored with the general propaganda motive. The Progressive with its tabloid-like treatment...
...avowed leading aims of the new Houses has been to establish a social and intellectual concord between student and instructor, in short, to develop further President Lowell's conception of the University as a group of experienced and un-experienced students working together for the same end. It has been proposed to aid this aim by providing a common eating place to bring the men together. But contact between them would be decidedly hindered if one or the other had first to hurdle over the impediment of a "high table". The social touch in bringing tutor and student to dine...