Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building of "a dormitory or 'House'" with the first anonymous grant, which was later revealed to have been given by Edward S. Harkness, Yale '87. President Lowell assured everyone that no change in teaching would result from the plan, only the "breaking up" of Harvard into "smaller social units in order to secure at the same time the advantages of the large and small institutions." Tutors would live in the House, undergraduates would join them in the dining hall, and athletic and library facilities would be supplied...
...often attacked as the American "worship of business." Hotels bought full page ads in the Crimson, advertising their "exclusive Fall Dansants," warning the wavering sophomore that "the smart folk will attend," or that "you'll find the best crowd in the college there." Boston was the center of Harvard social life, and for many this social life was the center of Harvard...
About the time of 1932's sophomore mid-years, four memorable events occurred: John Dewey was appointed William James Lecturer for the second semester of 1930-31; Russian sociologist Pitrim A. Sorokin, now director of the Institute for Creative Altruism, was appointed to head the Committee on Sociology and Social Ethics; 90 men were arrested in a mass subway riot; and the charred plot of ground on Soldiers Field where the locker building had stood before the January 14 fire, was being prepared for the new Dillon Field House, designed by the omnipresent Messrs. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott...
...terms of the married students them selves, the housing situation frequently means cultural isolation from the Harvard community. For the husband, it means constant commuting without even an academic surburbia to anticipate after a day's work in Widener. For his wife, it often means bleak isolation from social and cultural activities of the University...
Beyond the Law? But in the court's decision a flock of pundits and commentators thought they found backing for their long-argued opinion that the use of the Fifth Amendment carries with it no public stigma, social, economic or otherwise. The Supreme Court, wrote New York Timesman James Reston, had spoken out "emphatically'' against the "popular tendency" of assuming that a witness "must be guilty of some wrongdoing if he invokes the Fifth Amendment." Thus it was claimed the court had rebutted President Eisenhower's recent commonsensical remark that...