Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet, leave trash, vow eternal friendship and go their ways." So spoke Northeastern University's Professor Everett Marston of Duxbury, Mass, one day last week. Duxbury (pop. 4,280), like many upper-middle-income bedroom communities that sprawl around Boston, is the scene of a new form of social phenomenon-somewhat like the old town pump-that is coming to full flower in New England. In Duxbury's town dump, as in Lincoln's, Hingham's and Wayland's, local citizens who can well afford to pay for garbage removal prefer to haul away...
Since relations with other groups are important, the HYDC has a Second Vice-President in charge of external affairs, a sort of counterpart to its First Vice-President in charge of internal organization. "Club growth beyond a certain size is almost self-destructive," remarked one officer, "because the social contact of smaller groups is lost, and the resulting bureaucracy may drive out amateurs...
Surely the crowded seating and ugly surroundings are a far cry from President Lowell's orginal vision of the house dining halls as centers of social and intellectual intercourse in an atmosphere of gracious living. Some would say that the lamentable condition in the house dining halls is a necessary sacrifice for the furthering of the house drama. A dining hall, however, is basically a place in which to eat. House drama groups should not be allowed to disrupt dining hall life except immediately before and during their performances. Better planning would lighten the load on the already severely taxed...
...pointed out that studies of Armenian history are particularly important for a full understanding of social and economic developments in Asia. Courses in medieval history, church history, and linguistics will be offered in correlation with Armenian, he noted...
...Administration should make every effort to find a qualified replacement. Geography is a valuable study; the factors of terrain are key determinants in social and political development of the world's peoples. A study of the appropriate geography would seem to be a necessity in the Regional Studies Program; suitable courses would also grace undergraduate programs. Whether flat, spheroid, or pear-shaped, the world could be studied with profit at Harvard...