Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week "Jix" apparently staked all on the chance of being able to produce documents sufficiently charged with social dynamite to excuse violation of Soviet diplomatic immunity. The Sunday Observer, a newspaper of Sir William's own party (Conservative) spoke last week of "the dilemma in which the British Government has been thrown by its lack of coordination" (i.e. by "Jix's" independent action...
Skyscrapers were frowned upon as social nuisances, economic menaces. Also subways...
...women preachers. The General Synod, at Berlin, decided to permit women to be ordained, but with restrictions. They may function only so long as they remain unmarried. They may lead religious services for children and teach Bible classes of girls; may perform work akin to that of U. S. social workers-welfare work in prisons, almshouses, pesthouses and refuges for the aged. They may not officiate at marriages, funerals, baptisms, deaths. Clergywomen's pay will be three-fourths that of clergymen...
Harvard offers much to the visiting student which is strictly scholastic in nature. These opportunities are of primary importance to the English scholars, but other elements of a more social nature must of necessity enter into the equation, if the visitors are to be accorded a full measure of welcome. Situated as it is in a great metropolitan center, the University too often relies on the undoubtedly amusing but nevertheless inhospitable attractions of the city to those who have come not only to enjoy Harvard's academic distinctions but also at least to peer into that illusory thing known...
...visitors from their unofficial hosts. It is the absence of mutual meeting places where each can exchange views and opinions. Without instituting any network of formalisms, it might be possible to rearrange the situation so as to permit the guests to mingle with the members of the University on social terms. The advantages for both parties would certainly compensate for any labor necessary for such an innovation...