Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the Department of Social Relations and the Committee of General Education each plan to offer three new courses for the coming academic year, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...
David Riesman '31 will teach a half course, Social Sciences 136, "Character and Culture in America," during his first year as professor of Social Sciences. Other upper level courses planned by the Committee on General Education, are Humanities 136, "Poetry and Experience," to be taught by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and Humanities 137, "The Classics in the Renaissance," which will be given by Hanna H. Gray, instructor in General Education...
...three courses which the Social Relations Department is introducing will be taught by Philip Gulliver, an expert on Africa, who is visiting for one year. Social Relations 110, "Peoples and Cultures of East Africa," and Soc. Sci. 117, "Political Systems in Primitive Societies" will be treated largely in terms of his first hand experiences in Africa...
...quality of education received from committed and non-committed men. I suspect that, from a religious standpoint, Harvard students will have gained a far deeper insight into the significance of Protestant thought from Dr. Buttrick's courses than from all the objective lectures of the University's philosophers and social scientists. This is in no way to deny the the great value, within their own area of competency, of these non-religious approaches...
...expelled for the sin of poverty." Among the unexpelled nouveau poor are the Hunters, who eke out their stay as genteel innkeepers. Fortyish Bart Hunter is an existentially minded drunkard whose most cutting insult is to call someone "cheerful." His disillusioned wife Sylvia once took him for a big social cheese, but now knows him for an ineffectual mouse. Their son John, a taut, brooding boy of 14, and his nondescript little sister round out the unhappy Hunter clan...