Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James B. Conant Prize for scientific essays was given to Albert W. Alschuler '62 for his paper, "The Social Background of Scientific Secrecy." Clement Herschel prizes were granted to Peter Watermeyer IG, and to Merrill S. Hohman...
Agreement comes from David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Scinces: "It is less fashionable to be cynical about religion," he said. "There is fun poked at the return to religion, but this is part escapism. Students are more open, less in the spirit of Mencken...
Hostility to the Jewish scholar has receded in recent years, Harry Wolfson noted. "If a Jew writes a good book, he can get it published as easily as a non-Jew. I don't believe that there is an analogy between scholarship and social and economic life," he stated. Jewish scholarship has been characterized in modern times by the broad way it deals with its subject, Wolfson said. In nineteenth century scholarship Jews had the most liberal and most universal approach; no Jewish philosopher or student of philosophy ever dealt with his subject in isolation, but viewed it in relation...
Though the openly radical proposals of socialization won approval from up to a third, Harvard students reserve their overwhelming support for the "liberal" status quo. Two-thirds support such "Welfare State" projects as Social Security and Federal regional power development. Not suprisingly, current "liberal" proposals receive similar impressive backing: four-fifths approve of Federal aid to public secondary schools; two-thirds, of American economic and non-military technical aid to other countries at its present level, of national health insurance, of Federal aid to private colleges and universities, of government wage and price controls to check inflation; and half...
Mason, who works with the governments of Pakistan and Iran in promoting development projects, commented that political and social changes must accompany economic development. Backwardness either in social structure or governmental organization greatly hamper chances for improvement in income...