Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bethlehem Steel Corp.; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Richard B. Mellon, a director of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. They contrasted sharply ?"Charlie" Schwab, with his theatrical rags-to-riches air; the grave, earnest heir of John D. Rockefeller, with his air of Christian concern over a social evil; and Banker Mellon, cautious, acquainted with politicians, suspicious of the Committee's motives, uncommunicative, unsympathetic...
...Saturday morning the CRIMSON printed an article on the newly formed field of concentration, Sociology and Social Ethics, which is to take the place of the present field of Social Ethics. The headline which accompanied the story was misleading inasmuch as Sociology and Social Ethics is to be not a new department but merely a field of concentration. As a unit of instruction the Social Ethics department will continue as before. That new field of concentration will offer courses in several departments including Social Ethics, History, Economics, and Philosophy...
...Faculty has no desire to promote either vagueness or ease. Human society is a concrete and unified phenomenon, whose concreteness and unity are no doubt obscured by the differences of method and approach which distinguish economics, history, government, anthropology and ethics. At the same time, however, these different social sciences have, through their very specialization, acquired a firmness of intellectual texture, a maturity of thought, and a body of information which are now essential to any competant understanding of society as a whole. The new field of concentration provides therefore, that students whose special interest is human society, shall combine...
...plan is designed especially to unite the study of social facts with an examination of the standards and ideals by which these facts are to be judged. It is assumed that there are two equally legitimate questions which may be asked about society. First, what is society? and second, what ought society to be? The first question is descriptive, analytical and historical. The second is the question which Aristotle formulated when he said, "He who would duly enquire about the best form of a state ought first to determine which is the most eligible life". It is not intended that...
While this plan of study is believed to be sound in principle there are no illusions as to its difficulty. It is believed that in view of the present limitations and decentralization of the social sciences the new field of concentration demands a special aptitude and seriousness of purpose