Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...institutions. The Phillips Brooks contingent lay virtually dormant until the start of the current term when Reiss, one of 30 Volunteers in 1954-55, decided to reorganize the program. Registration in September jumped form last lear's 30 to a total of 124. Probably one of the most efficient social services in the College, the General Hospitals Program reports only two unexcused absences in the 660 occasions when workers have had hospital duties to fulfill...
...Volunteers' remarkable record can be attributed to two factors; first, their serious interest in the work of medicine, and secondly, an acutely sensitive direction of the immense organization. Director Reiss has the help of six PBH Social Services Committee members. Mary Costanza '58 and M. Joyce Gahm '58 respectively coordinate Mount Auburn Hospital Volunteers and are promoting the new Tufts College extension of the PBH program; John L. Higgins '57 organizes Cambridge City workers, and Morton F. Goldberg '58 is in charge of PBH work at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; David Chernof '57 directs the Program's relations with...
...seems quite sure why the Great Awakening in volunteer hospital work has been so abrupt. Both the General and Mental Hospital Programs have sprung to life since September, 1954. Perhaps the most valid explanation for the resurgence of interest comes from Roger W. Brown, assistant professor of Social Psychology and Social Relations head tutor...
Brown believes that students feel the stress of individual competition in both curricular and extra-curricular activities. The inevitable result, he suspects, is that more students are disappointed than are gratified. Hence they have turned to an activity which is both non-competitive and altruistic in character. Social progress in the last few years has taken much of the old stuff from campus political movements and hospital work gives students a new form of expression, he says...
...anachronism; more in keeping would be oaken banquet tables and hand wrought benches. Crossed lances and suits of armor would be more appealing than flags and plaques. In keeping with the medieval atmosphere, the psychological laboratories in the basement should become dungeons and the white mice replaced by Social Relations majors on probation...