Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking the famous Oxford Union and the Yale Political Union as its models, four undergraduate organizations announced last night plans for the Harvard Congress throughout the remainder of the current year. The Congress will provide an opportunity for all undergraduates interested in current political and social problems to meet in a common forum...
...university attendance and certain policies of the National Socialists, a parallel suggested by the Cambridge Union of University Teachers, I should like to call the Union's attention to the remarks on Germany in Kotschnig's recent book, Unemployment in the Learned Professions, and to Lowe's article in Social Research of last September. (Kotschnig is now teaching in this country, Lowe in England.) There is considerable evidence that the fifty to seventy thousand unemployed university graduates in Germany in 1932 not only served as a breeding ground for Nazi ideas, but, as a problem, provoked widespread resentment, which also...
...full) the Union itself grants the advisability of producing intellectuals beyond society's capacity to absorb them. Then where lies the issue? "What we urge," they write, "is that the fundamental problem be faced." What they apparently desire is that Mr. Conant take it upon himself to cure the social system, as well as adapt the University to it: and isn't that a rather large order even for a university president? E. Y. Hartshorne...
...Buck was to have spoken as one of a number of speakers in a political symposium which is being held under the auspices of the McGill Social Problems Club. To date the club has brought to the McGill Union, Mr. Woodsworth of the C. C. F. Party, a member of the Liberal Party and Mr. Adrien Arcand, leader of the Canadian Fascist movement...
...older teachers was a rule rather than an exception. Inseparable from the problem of guidance in a year turbulent for Freshmen with new educational methods and new scholastic standards is that of maladjustment. There are two kinds of maladjusted Freshmen; first, those that come to Cambridge either with personality, social and moral, or financial problems, for whose predicament there can be no solution until the whole advisory system is vitalized. Second, the large number of able, well-trained men who find the Freshman year largely a repetition of their last year in preparatory school. For this group there...