Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children will be procured through the Family Society of Cambridge, a social group that keeps tabs on gamins not connected with settlement houses...
Discrimination in fraternities is important because fraternities themselves are important. There are more than 2,750 Greek-letter chapters in the United States, and at many schools they house and feed most of the student body. They frequently run the social and extra-curricular life of those schools. Educational authorities estimate that 90 per cent of these fraternities have discriminatory clauses in their charters. Most specify "non-Semitic members of the Caucasian race;" some southern groups go even further, and admit only White Protestants." Last week, the fraternities voted that chapters should "take steps" to climinate such admission bars...
Also under consideration is an instructive film for the Social Relations Department's new psychology clinic, he said...
...doubt that sports, even though played mainly for relaxation and exercise, can contribute toward instilling the attitudes and mental skills approved by "general education." We are endlessly bombarded with pretty sentiments about how contact with teammates develops the players discipline, self-confidence and a number of other social traits--all very true and very important. Still we should no overlook the fact that athletics provide a creative expression of a type not encouraged in the classroom. There is an intellectual as well as a social dimension to teamwork. Judgment, predictive insight, social intelligence can be sharpened immeasurably by experience...
...doubt inescapable, on industry, foreign affairs, de-cartelization, shipping, and reparations. By making these concessions in time, the Allies hoped to strengthen the democratic regime. The plan misfired when Chancellor Adenauer attempted to claim all the credit for himself. By declaring himself opposed to discussing the program with the Social Democrats, he seriously weakened the prestige of parliamentary procedure and the validity of the contract. In protest, Opposition-leader Schumacher called Adenauer "Chancellor of the Allies," and was suspended from the House. Fortunately his party did not follow him, though its members share his belief that Adenauer has lost...