Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snow, British scientist and author, recently called attention to what he termed the problem of two cultures in our society--the gap in understanding between the traditional humanities and social sciences on the one hand and modern science and technology on the other. Both exist side by side, yet remain intellectually divorced in our modern society. This dichotomy serves well in considering the difficulties surrounding the discipline of economics, for its midway position in such a scheme is indicative of its problems...
...changes are clearly tending to make the course less an introduction into the Department and more a General Education course in the social sciences. The stress, in the attempt to interest the non-concentrator through presentation of historical and topical issues, is now upon political economy rather than upon economics. In a liberal arts college such a solution to the problems affecting the discipline seems to be the most logical and rewarding for an introductory course...
...during the first year of residence, von Stade also noted in his report. Although nearly 50 per cent of '62 intended to concentrate in the natural sciences last fall, only 34.2 per cent remained in the field by spring. Only 20.8 per cent had planned to concentrate in the social sciences at the start of the Freshman year, but six months later 39.7 per cent chose fields within the area...
...Social Syndrome...
...spite of the individuality of the Faculty wives, Harvard University is the inescapable social center for most of them. The large majority of the Faculty live in Cambridge, their friends are made within the departments. Even more corporateness is manifested than in a large business organization. It would be unusual to find all IBM employees living in the same neighborhood and to find them all friends. Whatever William Whyte may say of the organization man in business, to some extent this syndrome is ever more6Along with other Faculty wives, Mrs. McGeorge Bundy finds time for varied activities while raising...