Word: socializing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until men eschew relations with women, men, and the animal kingdom, Social Relations is pertinent of the livelihood and enjoyment of every student. It is a valuable major, be one's future buried in a monastery, in business or the professions, or in the Fiji Islands. It even has something to offer the confirmed hermit, for it provides much enlightenment on conversation with the self...
Usurping the position of English and Government, Social Relations has become in the last few years the major to espouse when one can't think of anything else. The Department was formed in 1946 by slicing the big names and titles out of Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology and has in its scope anything pertaining to man as a functioning organism, as a force acting upon other men, and as a pawn in the fist of history and economics...
...half courses out of the nearly unlimited subject matter of the discipline and two half courses from related fields, which means most of the fields in the College, are required for concentration. However, the concentrator must be able to pass a set of general examinations including some anthropology sociology, social psychology, and individual psychology. These generals are not easy, but one half course in each of these areas should stand the examinee in good stead...
...Social Relations Department is unique in many ways. Only three years old, it shows the strain of maturation in many of its limbs, but as it is growing, so it is strengthening and pushing out in new directions. First, many of its courses are taught by two, three and often a myriad of experts covering various topics. Being a nebulous discipline which contains more theory than fact, the opinions of more than one instructor are often necessary...
There will be a lot of talk in the continuing debate over health insurance about the "compulsory" Truman proposals. The Fair Deal plan is compulsory only in the sense that the social security system is compulsory--the deductions will be made under law from everybody's payroll...