Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since its organization in 1946, the group has given frequent concerts at nearby social functions, journeyed to Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Smith, and Vassar, appeared on television, and sung in the Band concert at Symphony Hall. Plans for the future include weekly informal concerts in the Yard and at Radcliffe, and negotiations are in process to make an album of records. Best of all, the City of Cambridge is helpless--the Pudding bar still ranks as a private club...
...these six, one must be a related course chosen from one of the social sciences other than history (i.e. Government, Economics, or Social Relations). A second course may be selected with the approval of the tutor or adviser from any subject closely related to the concentrator's special field. These minimum requirements allow a lot of room for what is fashionably called General Education...
With the demise of the traditional freshman catch-all, History 1, the field has become much more attractive. Social Sciences 1, which is designed to take the place of History 1, will center around the important elements in western civilization and will be given by two of the department's most competent men--Taylor, who used to teach History 1a, and Brinton...
...drudgery of weekly map work will not be included in Social Sciences 1. The course isn't required for concentration but one General Education course in the social sciences is urged for the freshman year and Social Sciences 1 is particularly relevant to the needs of concentrators...
Messner, who has taken only one Social Relations course (Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin's "Contemporary Sociological Theory), said he wroth the examination "from the point of view of the Harvard man who doesn't stoop to mere detail...