Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Society for Engineering Education, a group which can only be criticized for taking its own suggestions too seriously. It is assumed that the engineering student can give only a limited amount of time to non-technical subjects, and will derive the most return from highly integrated humanities and social sciences courses. Thus the general education program follows a nationally familiar pattern: freshman English, followed by courses each year in contemporary civilization, Great Books, History of Western Thought, or Practical Economics and Sociology. The aim of these courses, according to one dean, is "to develop conceptual sophistication...
...marks of freshmen, which are very much lower than upperclassmen's. (Fraternities have no freshman members.) And, more important, most frats are very careful not to bid for students with low grades, since any "organized living group" which does not maintain a certain average will be placed on social probation. The fraternities are usually very careful to enforce their own "study hours" rules...
This week, the university is discussing Dean Leith's latest ideas for strengthening "the fabric of social organization" at Lehigh. Leith's proposals, which some think are rather radical, would make it possible for the university to shut down a fraternity which goes on probation three times in seven semesters, and ask its national organization to "re-colonize...
...Social Blocks...
...lecture sponsored by the Social Relations Society last night at Emerson Hall, Sorokin noted the disintegration of the old "sensate" culture as one of the basic trends of our age. If man can avert total destruction in the struggle between the new and the old systems of thought the "dawn of a new, great culture is awaiting the man of the future," he claimed...