Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fraternities have an extremely important social position on most U. S. campuses, and they feel that they can keep this position only through restriction of membership. A few months ago, a Williams man told this writer that "we personally don't much care what religion a guy is when we pledge him, but if we didn't pick our members carefully, nobody would want to join us." As long as people like the Williams man must disregard their personal convictions because of outside pressure, no one-shot resolution will cure fraternity discrimination...
Solicitors also took a poll last night asking students why they gave to the charities they had indicated. One student said he gave to the Council because some time he might "need a loan" from them. Another said it was "social compulsion" and a third said he wanted to "be a philanthropist...
Biggest of Brooks House's nine operating units is the Social Service Committee, which boasts 245 members and associates who make weekly visits to Boston settlement houses and boys' clubs...
Today, a week and a half in advance of the Yuletide season, the Social Services Committees of Phillips Brooks House is already making plans to give a Christmas to scores of local youngsters who haven't much reason to believe in a Santa Claus...
...difference between a Brooks House Christmas party and the ordinary social work done by the committee, according to PBH secretary, Charles W. Duhig '29, is largely in the source of the children entertained. Usually parties and instruction groups take place in settlement houses in the poorer districts of Boston, Cambridge, and surrounding areas. Because of this, a great number of poor Cambridge gamins, many of whom are children of parents on relief, and who do not belong to one of the settlement houses, go without holiday celebrations...