Word: socials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grocery shopping at a supermarket, tries to spend a day a week at the Red Cross office-filing, typing, helping with organizational chores. She is a qualified nurse's aid, serves part-time in the local hospital, plays bridge with the girls, attends P.T.A. meetings, keeps her Washington social life to a minimum, and on the whole, keeps her children from the public glare as well as her pretty face out of the papers...
Although he did not name a Presidential favorite, David Riesman '34, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, warned against the contemporary political complacency. "I feel along with many people that the current American assumption that there can be 'politics as usual' in the year of the atom bomb does not make too much sense. We are perhaps too sure that 1960 will come along without a contaminated atmosphere or even a worse explosion and that we can play guessing games without serious risk to life on this planet...
...long-standing obstacle to an imaginative non-departmental tutorial program has been the identification of Honors with intelligence. Since Honors, however, continues to have its traditional implication of intensive concentration, intelligence becomes synonymous with heavy concentration. In fact, students in the Social Sciences are only recommended for Honors in General Studies if it is physically impossible for them to complete the Honors program...
...course was approved despite some fears that, although presently acceptable to the Committee, it might revert to departmental form as some Committee members feel Social Sciences 1 has done...
President Lowell was concerned about about the obvious inconvenience of the existing living arrangements, but he was far more disturbed by the general tendency of students to isolate themselves in stereotype economic and social groups. All the Greater Boston prep school boys were living in one little cluster, all the Cambridge and Boston Latin School boys in another, all the midwestern farm boys in another, and so on. Before making any changes in living arrangements, Lowell wanted to be sure any changes would help to break up and discourage these overly homogeneous groups...