Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighty delegates from 17 New England colleges will meet at Phillips Brooks House today for a conference designed to explore college volunteer social work with an aim of tripling the number of volunteers in the local social service field...
...conference, the first of its kind, was called by PBH last month as a means of finding out what other colleges are doing in social service and to help schools without social service agencies to set up formal organizations similar to Brooks House's social service committee...
Talcott Parsons, professor of Social Relations, was last night elected to the directorate of the United Community Services of Boston...
...life is detailed in Roosevelt's story. When coming to Harvard, Conant allegedly asked his doctor "how a man can be president of Harvard and live." The doctor set up a daily routine giving the president some leisure, but Conant's teaching commitments, writing, banquets, faculty meetings, and constant social functions have made the doctor's advice "far easier said than done...
General Education and the Social Relations department both pick up special attention in the article. "The General Education program was mapped out in... 1943... The courses have been criticized by many specialists as being too superficial and watered down to be of much value." Roosevelt also revives the story of Professors Bruner and Stouffer's November lecture before Soc. Rel. 1a, in which they ruled out any possibility of Truman's election. "They were just as wrong as Mr. Gallup...