Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ledger once the property of the proprietor of the Boston Exchange Coffee House has recently been presented to the Baker Library of the Business School and recalls the part once played by that institution in the social and commercial life of Boston. The edifice, illustrated above, was built in 1808 for the unprecedented sum of half a million dollars as a sort of merchants' exchange. As the Mermaid Tavern was the meeting place of Shakespeare's circle, and the St. James Coffee House the convivial headquarters of the Whigs in the time of Queen Anne, the Exchange Coffee House...
...insure the success of the House Plan, the tutors must have no part in the administrative duties of the College, restricting themselves to an advisory and social capacity," declared L. D. Peterkin, a member of the Classical Department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a tutor in the Department of English and the Classics, when asked his opinion of the duties of the tutors under the House plan. Peterkin speaks from experience gained as a tutor in the University for the past four years, and from knowledge of the English system in practice at Oxford and Cambridge...
...House, would not be wholly desirable. Care in selecting the location of the married tutors' apartments might do much to eliminate any disadvantage on that score. Peterkin believes that the unmarried men should be scattered throughout the Houses, keeping near enough to their tutees to be of educational and social benefit...
...more comfortable dining rooms for everyone which could be supplied by their installation in any dormitories that Yale may build in the future. The establishment of the House system at Yale in the form of small quadrangles will in this respect come into violent conflict with the present social system, for the Fraternities as they now stand are, if nothing else, eating clubs. In this matter, therefore, there would have to be a definite, although difficult compromise...
...throwing together men of widely varying mental equipment and cultural interests there might be a general stimulation of the educational idea, the idea that the University is an institution of learning rather than "A finishing school for young men." Ideally, there should be the discouragement of cliques and small social whirlpools of any sort within the separate "houses", while their whole purpose would be the encouragement of intellectual endeavor as small groups with common cultural interests. As the President of the CRIMSON describes the House plan, the group must "compete with the centrifugal attractions of final clubs, activities, varsity athletics...