Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over 30 professors, chosen by the dorm residents, have already joined in the affiliation program, designed to promote closer student-faculty relations. The professors and their wives will automatically be invited to attend all social functions at the dormitories with which they are associated, and will remain attached to the hall for at least two years...
Most of the trouble arising from Chapter XI has centered on the question of reports which governing powers are required to submit yearly to the U.N. on the social, economic, and technical conditions in dependent territories. South Africa has refused to transmit reports on South-West Africa, which it received under a League of Nations mandate in 1922. Three resolutions passed by the General Assembly have censured the South Africans for this policy, and ten days ago the U.N. voted to send the whole matter to the World Court...
More serious has been the opposition of the colonial powers to continuance of the 16-member committee which analyzes the social and economic data from dependent areas. The life of the group was recently extended three years by a vote of 41 to 4, with Britain, France, Belgium, and South Africa in the minority. Britain complained that information was being used by Russia for propaganda purposes, and that the committee had been given an "illegal" assignment to study political questions. The British also felt that reports should be made on all backward areas, self-governing as well as dependent...
From this simple arrangement Mr. Bowles seeks to establish the lack of moral and social authors which permits the tides of life to push us all about one way or another. But the lurid quality of Kit's refuge in the "friendly carnal presence" of the nearest male makes the jump from the naturalistic to the symbolic level difficult...
Speaking on the "Sociology of World Domination,' 'George Zipf '23 yesterday declared at a meeting of the Social Relations at a meeting of the Social Relations Society that "the findings of systematic social science today suffice to give pause to world political ventures in finance and trade, however cleverly disguised...