Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chemistry one of many activities in settlement house boys' clubs which are directed by social service workers. The Committee consisting of Irving Michelman '39 and Calvin Stillman '39, co-chairmen, Edward Allis '41, Cameron Burrage '41, Langdon Burwell '41, John Donnell '40, Robert Glaser '40, Robert Krancer '40, Cyrus Marden '40, Arthur Page '40, Robert Russell '41, and Lonsdale Stowell '41 is working to fill a very large number of requests from Boston's 30 settlement houses...
...committee has sent out 700 postcards to persons who signified interest in social service work at registration. Among the many positions to be filled are leaders of boys' clubs, instructors in chemistry, dramatics, manual training, etc. Men are also wanted for adult education and naturalization work...
This course is part of the new program, introduced by Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, to emphasize architecture as a social function...
Through the Progressive Education Association, it is financing films and radio programs on social problems, creating a new high-school curriculum pointed toward social change. In 1913 the huge Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations were investigated by a suspicious Congress. But today critics who looked the Rockefeller gift horse in the mouth in 1913 are sorry to lose the old animal, for G. E. B. has written its Q. E. D. under many a progressive idea...
Favorite subject of progressive educators is social studies-how and why people live and work together. Modern schools start teaching this subject early, explaining it to moppets by describing a simple society like that of Eskimos. Centerville, a textbook published last week,* brings social studies closer to U. S. children by analyzing a simple society in the Middle West's corn belt. For nine-year-olds in the third grade, Centerville is a story of a '"typical" (but unidentified) village of 309 people in Indiana. Authors of this child's Middletown are Stanford University's young...