Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson swimming team will meet Brown at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the I.A.B. It will cost a dollar to make a social event out of what seems likely to be the varsity's next to last win of the year...
...evident that many undergraduates consider the House just another place to sleep. House activities suffer in comparison with college-wide associations; House athletics are dwarfed by varsity sports; and the House as a social community is drained by half a thousand students who seek social identification with various clubs. But most important, the House as an imaginative arrangement for bringing faculty and student together is very little arrangement at all. While the lucky student may make intellectually valuable contacts within the informal atmosphere of the House, for the great majority, contact with tutors comes about as close as the distance...
...with Economics 1 students.) Master Ronald M. Ferry tentatively views the program as a success, and there is no reason why it cannot be extended to other Houses when reduced crowding permits. The principal value of the plan will be its tendency to bring an increased intellectual orientation to social contacts on the House level. In theory, a discussion of economic determinism at an afternoon section meeting among House members might be continued at dinner. Particularly if the tutor is a resident, the fusion of both student and teacher as members of an academic community can be of importance both...
...particular House, he is more likely to dine there than in the Faculty Club or a restaurant, and such informal contacts can easily develop into important channels for the exchange of ideas. Within the House the professor may eventually come to feel himself a member of a stimulating social and academic community, and until that time, an office in a House can be made more pleasant than a crowded niche in Widener or a grimy office along Massachusetts Avenue. As Eliot House Master John H. Finley Jr. '14 expressed the idea, "The first step for the creation of the Houses...
...bewildered hero bent on restoring a lost Eden, Author Jones has found an apt symbol for the current Southern temper, restive and occasionally violent under edicts which seem to threaten cherished folkways. In a fictional amber as reflective as it is rhetorical, he has fixed the unchanging pathos of social change...