Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fund-raising is the flip-side of alumni social activities, and officials in Cambridge are well aware that active local alumni groups are a valuable way for them to stay in touch with potential contributors. Harvard clubs like Rochester's usually don't participate directly in fund-raising--that's left to local class agents of the Harvard College Fund. But more often than not, an alumnus who wants to stay in touch with his classmates also feels close enough to the College to want to support it financially...
...left to his successor, Richard Cardinal Cushing, a man of simpler style, and Pope John XXIII, successor to Pius XII, to paint a picture of Catholicism which was inconsistent neither with the times nor the experiences of 20th century Americans of all faiths living in an age of rapid social change. The election of John F. Kennedy '40 to the presidency in 1961 did not so much prove that a Catholic could be president as show how little being a Catholic had to do with being president at all. These developments raised the nation's consciousness and provided the context...
Neither the visit nor the Pope are without their complications even today. The Pope, adored in the streets and hailed as a media phenomenon, is scarcely the slicked-down, "with-it" Pontiff one might think the 20th century requires. Indeed, he has been called by some social critics within his own church a throwback to the frosty Pius XII. His pronouncements, shaped by the rigors of his Eastern Catholicism and his perception of a world in moral drift, have served to defend the eroding frontiers of faith and practice. He is both personable and tough-- a difficult combination to defeat...
Alumni who attended Harvard during World War II said yesterday that "The Last Convertible," a T.V. movie about five wartime students, deals realistically with the effect of the war on the University, but exaggerates the social life of the typical student...
...fewer workers will be supporting far more retired people. In 1950 the worker-to-retiree ratio was 7.5 to 1; to day it is 5.4 to 1. By 2030, when the baby boomers will be rocking away on the veranda, the ratio will be 3.1 to 1. Under Social Security, payments from current workers back the checks that are sent to former employees. There are now three workers paying into the system for every retired person who is drawing out from it; in about 50 years there will be only two workers for every retiree...