Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...library and a power plant, buildings for the School of Engineering and Architecture, the College of Dentistry and the College of Pharmacy. Five women's dormitories have gone up, as well as one for men, and three recitation halls. Johnson established full-fledged schools of graduate study and social work, gradually got all ten of his schools accredited. In 1953 Phi Beta Kappa at last gave permission for a Howard chapter. This week Tau Beta Pi, oldest engineering honor society in the U.S., will become the 14th honor society to do the same...
...started back in 1952 when Morey Bernstein, a Colorado businessman, was giving a demonstration of hypnosis after a club dance. There he met a lively young brunette named Ruth Simmons who was "on the smallish side" and a good social dancer. She also, he soon discovered, had the "ability to enter an uncommonly deep trance while under hypnosis." Despite the objection of her husband Rex ("Look, I just want to sell insurance and be a regular guy; I don't want to be dubbed a crackpot or a screwball"), Bernstein convinced her to go on a trip through her prenatal...
Douglas Horton, dean of the Divinity School Faculty, said yesterday that he would present the proposal to the Social Action Committee of the School. "I think it is a good idea," he said, "to open the chapel for prayers of intercession on this issue." The decision on this proposal will be announced in the next few days...
Miss Weiss, speaking under the auspices of the Social-Democratic Forum, said that the split between the working classes and their capitalist dominators is widening at a greater rate than it ever has. "As Marx predicted," she emphasized, "the workers alone have the ambition to improve the lot of their nation and their fellow men, while all the capitalists wish to do is to walk around with mink coats on their backs...
Timothy F. Harding '56, president of the Social-Democratic Forum, said the organization is sponsoring the speech because it feels that too often the subject is taught here by "professors who bend over backwards to present the faults of Marxism and who undoubtedly give a one-sided presentation...