Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Also the social service workers have promoted the Freshman's early welfare through their information bureau open since Monday in the Northwest corner of the Yard...
...Social Service committee, headed by Sheldon Ware '38, is doing increasingly important work in the poorer districts of Boston. The traditionally patronizing air which the college men used to have when doing social service has been done away with and in its place a real interest has been stimulated. In the not so distant past the security of their own future insulated their minds to any relative application of the distress encountered to their own lives and position in society. Direct contact with the results of unemployment, insecurity, and poverty has brought today greater realizations of their importance and position...
...Social Service committee primarily is interested in introducing the undergraduate to the Settlement Houses. In these settlement houses there is an opportunity for coaching athletics, dramatics, for teaching music, English and civics to naturalization classes, for leading discussion groups and organizing boys clubs. Last year at the peak of activity there were 209 men doing this work. In addition, this committee during the past year has become interested in the problems of juvenile delinquency and the prevention of crime, and they offer in this line an opportunity to visit the local prisons and to meet the men engaged...
...Episcopal journals (one of which, The Churchman, declined to print his words and editorially questioned his ethics in giving his letter simultaneously to the daily press): "The C. L. I. D. is ... militantly partisan and radical. ... It is evident that these meetings are not for judicial consideration, or for social education, but that they are purely propagandist, with more than a tinge of Communism. Should any organization be allowed to use the General Convention as a means for its economic and political propaganda...
...Southerners are sure that, within the narrow limits they allow, they understand the Negro better than Northerners do. To Northerners the Negro is not a social problem but a minor, hardly noticeable industrial phenomenon. Nevertheless, even dyed-in-the-wool descendants of Lincoln's emancipators sometimes find it a socially embarrassing experience to encounter the emancipated Negro, whether in Harlem or between the covers of a book. Southerners would simply disregard the equalitarian gropings implicit in such novels as These Low Grounds and Their Eyes Were Watching God; Northerners might well find in them some indigestible food for thought...