Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grace Coolidge seems to have gone back a long way for her psychology of marriage. . . . He may not be all that she desired in her romantic moments, he may be boorish around the house, but after all, the progressive social esteem accruing to the wife of a Northampton Mayor, a Massachusetts Governor, a President of the U. S., is not hard to take...
None the less, the many obvious grounds of dissent at Geneva last week among Germany's onetime enemies, gave Count von Bernstorff an opportunity for polite but insidious irony which he was unable to resist. The Count, whose vivid charm of manner won him much social popularity in Washington before his "undiplomatic"** intrigues as pre-War German Ambassador were discovered, arose at Geneva last week and spoke with a malicious twinkle in his eye: "The delegates should apply to their nations the same rules which they applied in disarming Germany. . . . Talk of 'regional security' would seem slightly out of place...
...petition was granted. Twice a week, specialists now lecture on the social, economic, medical and psychological aspects of wedlock. Upwards of 100 students take notes, discuss. Who the "specialists" are, what their experience, authority and tenets, were not announced. The University of North Carolina, unlike many institutions with vociferous press bureaus, sought no publicity for its experiment...
While nothing could be more futile than prying into the secrets of organizations whose purposes are obviously innocuous and whose existences supply as much stimulus to exemplary undergraduate endeavor as they do to alleged snobbery and social intrigue, still, curiosity is at least the second strongest of passions and a body of fairly reliable fact has become public property-through indiscreet wives, brazen peepers and sheer accident-with the currency of which the inscrutable ones would not be so foolish as to quarrel. Thus, it is known that one "tomb" is furnished in the acme of masculine comfort...
...when he said several years ago: "Our race is overweighted. It will degenerate under circumstances which make demands that exceed its powers." The enormous increase of knowledge and the increasing complexity of the curriculum in our universities is analogous to the increase of things and the increasing complexity of social organization in our civilization as a whole. It is, perhaps, more than analogous. It may well be an organic part of the larger social process that Galton described. We are witnessing today both the collapse of our curricula from structural overloading and the beginnings of a student revolt against...