Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the House System changed the face of social life at Harvard, the Yard has been the exclusive heritage of the freshman class. But next fall, when over 100 upperclassmen temporarily move into most of Wigglesworth Hall, an old chapter in the history of the College will be reopened. For the first time in twenty five years freshmen will not live in cloistered seclusion. And with over one-tenth of the class of '60 staying in converted apartments on Prescott St., they will be outside of the gates for the first time since World...
...their consciences. Further, he claims that by calling nation-wide attention to a distorted picture of the colored man's misfortunes, the NAACP drives racists and other less enlightened Southerners to intensify repression. He maintains that meanwhile there is no "Negro organization, philanthropic or agitative, dedicated to sanitary and social uplift among the Negroes of the South." Mr. Halberstam, despite his later denial of any partial viewpoint, strongly implies that the NAACP would be well advised to transform itself completely from an effective political pressure group to a neighborhood clean-up, paint-up, fix-up organization...
...group should throw away its weapon and fight with a bouquet. The Negro has neither the financial resources nor the access to power necessary to help himself effectively. More important, the NAACP feels that only through community action will the Negro's status be improved. The economic and social system has forced the colored man into second class citizenship, and the world now owes him the opportunity to make a living...
...forth the proposition that Mr. Halberstam has missed the point in his analysis of the Till case. His manner of thinking has restricted him to the immediate consequences, and he has not envisaged these consequences as being important only so far as they affect the entity of social thought...
...solution of the Southern position. This, I believe, is a fanciful notion. The solution is not so simple and for this reason I leave it to the others who are much better informed. But one thing is certain, and that is, when one is treating social relations as they exist in America today, the world situation should make him stop and reflect along with Dean Swift in a Tale of a Tub, that, "...When a man's fancy gets astride of his Reason, when Imagination is at Cuffs with the Senses, and common Understanding, as well as common Sense...