Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, in 1967 'Fitz' joined Harvard's most elite social organization, but membership in the Society is not based on a prep school background or a closet full of L.L. Bean boots. Fitzsimmons was automatically elected by virtue of the sole criterion involved--a stint in the twines as a Harvard hockey goaltender...
...story illustrates the tendency of the PBH Association (PBHA), the building's principle tenant, to support progressive social and political outfits. The difference between the House itself and the Association has led to a good deal of confusion. PBHA, Harvard's largest undergraduate organization, is a social action group accommodating a wide variety of volunteer placements...
Three years ago, there was a philosophical split between committees working for social reform, such as the economic change group, and those performing social services, such as tutoring in high schools...
...conflict within the Mental Health Committee two years ago reflects the difference between the social reform and social service sectors. Volunteers worked in mental hospitals doing typical social service work until committee chairmen chose to eliminate these placements and to concetrate instead on alternative mental health concerns, such as halfway houses and a journal of radical therapy...
There are still definite differences between the two general types of committees. "Groups working for social reform are trying to analyze and remedy the causes of the problem, while social service attempts to relieve its effects," says Kristen L. Manos '80, president...