Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less important to Britain's future, however, are such social goals as the Tory program to step up slum clearance and rehouse a million more Britons by 1965. For Harold Macmillan, such programs are both ethical and practical imperatives. As he sees it, the guiding principle of Tory democracy must be that laid down by his favorite predecessor, Benjamin Disraeli: "To elevate the condition of the people." It is by elevating the condition of the people that Macmillan has led the British electorate steadily away from the sterile socialist doctrines that once threatened to emasculate the free economy that...
John Dewey continues to say that we should go "back (not to traditional Platonism, but) to the dramatic, restless, co-operatively inquiring Plato of the dialogues... whose highest flight of Metaphysics always terminated with a social and practical turn.... Upon the whole the forces that have influenced me have come from persons and from situations more than from books." He expressed the faith that the philosophy of the future would be characterized by unification or integration of thought without artificiality...
Answer: Let them pay attention to social and moral relations and the problems involved...
...four-quarter program, which has been so much discussed, thus seems to have little chance for acceptance. To institute it would probably cause a minor social revolution, at least on the secondary school level, for spreading vacations through the year would change the entire complexion of the student employment situation, now based on the great number of jobs available during the summer when most older workers like to go on vacation. Such a revolution would probably have to occur before any public school system could adopt the proposal on a large scale, for otherwise opposition would be overwhelming...
Walter W. Birge III '61, Co-chairman of the PBH Social Service Committee, and Barney Frank '61, member of the Student Council, have been working on a plan to have PBH-supervised groups admitted to three or four games next year. If the HAA approves the plan, Birge and Frank will arrange the details this spring...