Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every year the Women's Association of the Pittsburgh Symphony Society sponsors a ball, the city's outstanding social event, for the benefit of the 60-year-old orchestra, whose first conductor was Victor Herbert. This year, I am pleased to report, the association chose TIME Inc. publications for both title and decorative inspiration. Amid the pageantry of the ball, bejeweled women and their white-tied escorts moved from room to room, each of which was styled after a TIME Inc. publication. There were, for example, imitation gold coins and a wheel in the FORTUNE Room, putting greens...
William M. McCord, instructor in Social Psychology, said "The death penalty serves no useful purpose except as a revenge for society." The teacher of "Problems in Criminology" thought the question of capital punishment largely moral and one that every person must solve for himself. "It certainly does not serve as a deterrent," he added...
...clock: In spite of rumors to the contrary, it is not easy to take four twelve o'clock courses. For those Spartan enough to get up at nine o'clock, the Social Relations department has an offering. The Ethnology of Native North America, Soc. Re1. 124, concerns, evidently, the people of America and Canada. Over in Harvard Hall 5 today's mind comes to grips with the New Testament, and Professor Buttrick with Dewey, Fromm, Eliot, and Sartre. The course is Humanities...
...clock: For the wandering scholar Scandinavian 50 provides useful literary, artistic, and social cultural information about the Scandinavian countries. This can be acquired with no knowledge of the Scandinavian languages. Returning after a year's absence, Robert Chapman brings with him drama from Ibsen to Helman. The stage is Emerson D. History of Religions 101b offers a unique opportunity. Interested students can become Hindus, Brahmins, Buddhists, and Moslems--for about a week or two apiece. For those who prefer, there are also selected Christian heretical doctrines...
...spring promises to be quite political in this election year, but it will undoubtedly have its social and financial aspects too. In a couple of months the river bank should once again become a Coney Island of towels, softballs, books, and conscientiously suntanned bodies. Perhaps too, some undergraduates will renew their attempt to persuade all the college to attend something called an all-college weekend. Meanwhile, up in the Yard, Harvard will admit its biggest and brilliantest freshman class yet, and will then set about lending them enough money to pay their way through. Dean Bundy will still be busy...