Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students have other needs of fresh support. The Chemistry Department has again outgrown its facilities. The same can be said of Astronomy. But it is not only the natural sciences which have been experiencing vigorous development. No proper physical facilities have yet been provided for the Department of Social Relations, a growing field at Harvard which has been of increasing importance to undergraduates during the past decade. And this lively department is only slightly less adequately provided with endowed professorships than are several other areas. Indeed, the future of the Faculty depends not only upon restoring the purchasing power...
...addition, he asked for better facilities for the Chemistry Department, the Astronomy Department, and the Department of Social Relations, "a growing field which has been of increasing importance to undergraduates during the past decade...
...concept of the "narrow scientist" was exploded yesterday by statistics released through the Committee on Educational Policy. The figures showed that students in the Humanities and Social Sciences are much more prone than those in the Natural Sciences to take most of their courses within their own Department and area...
Commenting upon the report last night, Kaysen observed that it included required freshman English as a Humanities course. He also said that he was "surprised" to have found that the science students took a broader sampling of courses than did Humanities or Social Sciences...
Angus Wilson is a social satirist with an itchy trigger finger. The novel is his shooting gallery, and the characters he sets up as targets not only have clay feet but clay minds and clay hearts as well. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is his longest, cleverest and most annihilating display of literary marksmanship to date, and after it is all over, what hangs in the air is the acrid odor of an unrelenting misanthropy...