Word: social
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present juncture the most important concern of Congress should be settling the social unrest that is undermining our national existence. What the people want from Washington is peace, prosperity and production. What they are getting is pork, politics and piffile...
Thirteen months have passed since the last gun was fired; thirteen months of such chaos and social disorder as the world has never seen. "Peace! peace! they cry; but there is no peace." Wars and rumors of wars shake us as they never did before. We are now in the grip of a great coal famine, which, before it is past, will bring suffering to the highest as well as to the lowest. Its ramifications extend to every branch of our life; its crushing effect on industry makes vain every attempt to minimize its evil. Its paralyzing consequences are felt...
...third of the University teas tomorrow Professors from the departments of Philosophy, Psychology, Social Ethics, German, Geology, and Geography will be the special guests, together with the members of the Faculty and their wives, alphabetically from H through K inclusive. All members of the University are invited to attend this tea, and all others, which will be held every Friday through January and February, with the exception of the Christmas vacation and the mid-year. These informal teas are held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House from 4.30 until 6 o'clock...
...possible a cross-section of the sentiment of the nation. Such a vote would have far more significance than the straw ballots recently held at Harvard and Yale and elsewhere; a nation-wide vote would eliminate the possibility of the charge of sectionalism and would not represent only one social class...
Ideals are very apt to disappear in the struggle for a living. Nevertheless college men, who have the opportunity to do some of that detached, impersonal thinking which often provides such good social medicine, are through their situation well fitted to see and work for the good of the whole community. To these the Prospect Union offers a liberal field. It is continuing in its purpose "to bring into mutual beneficent contact all classes and groups in the community." It is a sincere attempt to break down the barriers of misunderstanding between classes...