Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shares of Neighbors Ltd.," said Viscount Ennismore last week, "will be sold at a penny each to wealthy men who wish to show the sincerity of their Socialism, and remove the obstacles of their capital, earned or unearned. Each purchaser of a penny share binds himself to contribute ?100 [$486] to the company's Permanent Fund. The sole business of Neighbors Ltd. will be to administer the Fund in the interest of Social Service...
...people still think of Cambridge as a college town, over which Harvard spreads a dominating influence. Boston, moreover, and the countless suburban districts are conveniently within immediate reach. It is no longer incumbent upon the University, therefore, to provide for social activities, which must necessarily have severe competition...
...them, should selections be made? There is the obvious objection that all the evils of the club system would be only magnified by such a plan if the clubs pursued their present method of election. Wilson's solution, implicit though never spoken, was to make intellectual and not social raport the basis of selection...
...rivalry in other departments will come to take their place, or at any rate be added to them. Inter-class distinctions will be lessened; and there will be a closer contact with the Instructors and tutors who live in the new Houses. The individual will receive more attention, and social distinctions will be materially lessened...
...Dance, like the old gray mare, is decidedly not what it used to be. Those who remember its halcyon days will verify this statement, and can add that since the war the spontaneous cooperation on the part of a class so necessary to the dance's success as a social affair has waned considerably. It is of course difficult for each successive class to believe that it cannot improve on the efforts of its predecessor. The paramount conviction is that Memorial Hall has, in this ultramodern age, proved the nemesis of the dance and that its success would be assured...