Word: socialize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inviting Granville Hicks '23 to come to Harvard as its guest speaker, the American Civilization Plan has delivered the most forthright possible answer to the editors of "Social Justice". That magazine in its latest issue flays President Conant for approving an extra-curricular book-list which, it alleges, "bootlegs Communism into Harvard by the backdoor." Although the writings of Mr. Hicks are specifically cited in the article as illegal liquor, the Civilization Plan has gone the whole hog by asking the scholarly radical to lecture here...
...mere reading list could provoke the vehement comments which "Social Justice" has printed, then this latest action of the Civilization Plan is likely to provoke criticism of the most violent nature. Out of a list of 275 books recommended by the Committee for the Study of American Civilization, four are objectionable to Father Coughlin's publication. Out of a dozen speakers chosen by the Committee, one is persona non grata to that same magazine. Yet withal the Plan stands convicted of but one insidious purpose: the spreading of American culture by the encouragement of self-education. In selecting books...
...best new numbers is Mene, Mene, Tekel, a rousing piece of Biblical hotcha. Another is Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl, a funnier burlesque than the usual beer-&-pretzels music-hall version, which achieves "social significance" through its injunction to the innocent Bertha that "it's better with a union man." Best number in the show is The Harmony Boys, in which Father Coughlin, Fritz Kuhn and Senator Reynolds go into an uproarious song-&-dance, muttering lines like these of Fritz...
...problem at Reed, a progressive college that goes in heavily for the arts and social studies, is to get enough football players for a team. Reed has a normal annual football budget of about $100, charges nothing for admission to games. This fall, having decided that Reed football was becoming too dangerous, Mr. Keezer blew in $300 for shoulder pads, pants, etc. For the fun of it, two young facultymen-Biology Teacher William ("Bill") McElroy, lately a varsity end at Stanford, and Alfred ("Fritz") Hubbard, onetime Carnegie Fellow at Princeton-offered to coach. Result was an unusually big turnout...
Although the book will have no radical departure from previous years, the Board intends to place greater emphasis on pictures, primarily informal cuts. And in general the plan for 1940 will be for greater informality throughout, with action and color photographs and candid shots of athletics, Houses, and social activities...