Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group incorporated themselves under the name of the Harvard Club of Boston "for the purpose of promoting social intercourse among its members, fostering the Harvard spirit in all Harvard spirit in all Harvard men, advancing the interests and promoting the welfare of Harvard University. . . . " Five years later, the Club was well underway, and moved into the large Club-house at 374 Commonwealth Avenue which it still occupies today...
...Rooms, private baths, fireplaces, and individual entries which we can no longer afford. But if this means that only the well to do will live in the old Houses, then the College and the President should reconsider their program. Gracious living is very nice, but if gracious living means social stratification, the price is too high...
...life Martin King found himself in an integrated school; he was one of six Negroes among nearly 100 students at Crozer. Fearful that he might fail to meet white standards, King worked ceaselessly. Aside from his general theological studies, he pored over the words and works of the great social philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Locke, Hegel (whose progress-through-pain theories are still prominent in King's thinking). Above all, he read and reread everything he could find about India's Gandhi. "Even now," says King, "in reading Gandhi's words again, I am given inspiration...
Before the center began, only two of the present members carried on significant research in the social sciences and humanities. Now, because of center grants and the fact that a professor at a small college has access to the facilities of 13, every campus has a research program. In the last six years, the center has given 153 research grants, enabled facultymen to publish 79 monographs and 43 books...
Still another approach to problem solving is that developed by Boston's Arthur D. Little Co., which uses a panel of seven thinkers from widely different professions-artists, engineers, social scientists, biologists, physicists, etc.-brings them together to hammer away at everything from improving paint to making easy-open cans. To date, 40 companies have gone to Little for help, and more than two dozen have asked it to set up similar panels in their own plants...