Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in 17 years the P. O. on W. had convened in Washington (next year it's Portland, Ore.) and the expensive Mayflower Hotel unbent to make the event a social success. Rates were cut to $2.17 per night and 1,560 of its rooms were occupied. Its parlors and lobbies were filled not only with those who dressed like President Combs but with carriers in shirt sleeves, without neckties. The bars did little business, conversation was quiet, and the Washington Herald said admiringly of the crowd: "It was interested and curious, but unawed...
...newspaper Le Populaire thus: "We do not seek to exploit against Edouard Daladier the difficulties which he has created for himself. The hour is too grave for that. But it is necessary that he be warned, if he has not already been. For repeal of the social legislation or for a reversal of attitude toward the working class, let him not count on the Socialist Party...
...Williams describes Harvard's contribution to this field as the offering of a new method rather than the answering of a new need. He foresees the Littauer Center growing into a real center for men in the public service whether federal, state, or local, and for men in the social sciences, whatever their particular specialty, who are engaged upon research in broad public problems...
...past years the most valuable work of the Council has been in the reports of committees on social and educational problems in Harvard College. These reports, while they are never recognized as all-conclusive or as a panacea, have given assistance to the officers of administration in shaping the recent developments in the College...
Since the report shows the shift of student enrollment from the older "standard" fields of the Humanities toward the Social Sciences and the absence of a proportional shift of funds from one Department to another, it may prove a salutary "eye-opener". The Council hopes that many new students in the College will express an interest in the College will express an interest in the reports which may influence the course of their education at Harvard; copies of Council reports may be consulted in Phillips Brooks House...