Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brings to the University, rather than by the effort or the spirit which the athletes who participate in it are willing to give. Football, of course, supplies the pennies for the H.A.A. strong box and keeps a large number of people aware of Harvard's existence. Crew has a social prominence which the University would hate to sacrifice, despite the fact that it produces only indirect monetary gains. And rare is the undergraduate who is so indifferent to Harvard athletics that he does not have at least an inkling in his mind of what the major teams are doing...
John L. Dampeer '38 will head a committee of eight students to examine this spring and next year "research vs. teaching ability", "the trend to social sciences", "hiring and firing", and "flexible departmental budgets...
...seen the horrors of war and contemplated the tragedy of the mass slaughter that war entails, can fail to appreciate the motives that are causing peace strikes all over the country. But there are many who strenuously object to beclouding the issue with social problems and labor agitation. Every national malady should be treated and discussed at the right time and place, and labor problems are very pressing in this day and age, but a peace strike is not the place to air labor's grievances. The most forceful, most impressive, peace-strike is one that is dedicated solely...
...like John Ruskin viewing the exterior of King's College Chapel ("an old sow lying on its back") the sight depressed him. reminded him of "an old comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story mood of bourgeois gentlemen? Easy: jail 'em and let the Supreme Court of the U. S. outlaw their nonsense." The press so disgusted...
...want one. Let the conduits of 'information' and 'news' be placed in the hands of philosophers and men of science. For instance, give the dailies to the metaphysicians; the weeklies to the psychologists, the radio and movies to experts in social science. And let it be stipulated that no edition and no story be released until the entire Board agree upon the truth. This would at once diminish the output of press, radio and cinema to precisely what that output was in the year...