Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Representatives of the Phillips Brooks House Social Service Committee will discuss the group's work in Cambridge settlements and evaluate their recent report on volunteer-agency responsibilities when they appear before the Cambridge Federation of Settlements on Dec. 9, committee Co-Chairman Harold A. Richmond '59 announced yesterday...
...school in which he feels he has reached an academic roadblock. Recently admitted examples of this kind of student are a transfer who ran out of Anthropology courses at Williams, one at Middlebury who exhausted the Classics Department, and another from Oberlin who came to Harvard because of its Social Relations Department...
...spite of this difficult adjustment, the transfer usually has enough intelligence and maturity to master his new environment. The change is not made immediately, however. As Master Finley says, "Socially these people have a much harder time of it. Freshmen meet many of their friends brushing their teeth in the comunal bathrooms of their freshman dorms. Transfers do not have the social opportunities of the freshman year...
About 8,000 math and science teachers entered this system last year, as compared with over 10,000 in social studies, 8,000 in English, and more than 12,000 in physical education. Many attempts to raise the level of science teaching are in progress. New York City has instituted a Bureau of Science and Mathematics to coordinate the curriculum in the public schools, and to try to bring standards nearer those of the Bronx High School of Science. A national education foundation has engaged Oscar-winning Frank Capra to direct some films dramatizing the opportunities in science...
...present graduate Regional Studies Program has three fields: Russia, the Far East, and the Middle East. Study of the selected culture is pursued through courses in Regional Studies, History, Government, Economics, Social Relations, Anthropology, Linguistics and through courses in the language and literature of the region. Those studying Russia have the added advantage of having the facilities of the Russian Research Center to supplement their academic work...