Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social and financial success of the dance, held for the first time this year, assured it of being an annual affair. The ball will be held in a Boston hotel on the Friday preceding the first Yale hockey game. It was also decided that the chairmen are to be selected alternately from the Military and the Naval Science Departments...
...Many of the social problems that loom up so ominously before us today will eventually be solved. I feel sure, by experimental work in sociology such as we have recently undertaken at Minnesota," declared Pitirim Sorokin, professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, and one of the foremost sociologists in the world today. "While as yet we have attempted nothing on a large scale, we have obtained results that quite clearly indicate the future possibilities for an advanced development in this field...
...while the cause of the homeless Michigan students was better supported than that of the foreigners, the subscriptions for the German book of diagrams which could be used to personal advantage only, were vastly greater than those for either of the other causes. Thus we proved that as social distance increases, readiness to help others decreases, while one is ready most of all to help oneself, in spite of all that may be said to the contrary...
...Boston Club speeches on the House Plan disclose the position of University Hall on several not un-important details regarding the working out of the proposed social scheme. Mr. Greenough's mention of a "high table" in the dining hall for the resident masters and tutors, and of a separate common room for the same officials presents a jarring note in the utopian outline of the Harkness project...
...Other Anson G. Phelps descendants include: Anson Phelps Stokes, former Secretary of Vale University; Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect of the firm of Howells & Stokes; James Graham Phelps Stokes, who was a presidential elector on the Populist ticket in 1904, married to and divorced from Rose Pastor, social worker: Harold Phelps Stokes, newspaper man and former secretary to Herbert Hoover. Ansonia, Connecticut, is a namesake of family's founder...