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...dignity and coservatism affected to an extreme degree the thoughtlessness towards their classmates of a few who are mistaken to represent a "set," the over-sensitiveness of others too ready to see and suffer a slight, the imaginary line between "society" and "non-society" men, and the underlying jealousies existing among the clubs themselves, are the chief causes which disunite the Harvard classes and greatly limit the sympathetic intercourse of their members which would make so full the pleasure and advantage of undergraduate days. These causes are not natural to a body of intelligent, well-bred and well-disposed young...
...communication in another column on some of Harvard's social conditions contains, it must be admitted, much truth. The most of us are agreed in believing that serious evils exist in the undergraduate social life. One part of a class, even in its fourth year in the University, does not know nor care about the other half. "Cliques" and "sets" do exist; at every election of Class Day Officers there is a fight between "society" and "non-society" men; and there is an atmosphere of false formality and false dignity which old graduates tell us is not to be found...
...easier to see that evils exist than to trace their causes. Some attribute the defects to the elective system with its diversity of courses and aims and its consequent separation of the class into groups of men with different interests. But the "sets" and "societies" are not formed with these groups as a basis. They and the so-called "nonsociety" element are rather composed of men from each of these different groups with different aims. Scientific and classical students form not widely disproportionate parts of the same clubs...
...corrupt administration of public affairs. C. The plank in regard to Federal Relations is an attack upon the U. S. Gov't and subversive of the Constitution. (Chicago Platform.) (1) It destroys the Federal equilibrium established by the Constitution. (a) It means that the U. S. Gov't can exist in efficiency only by the consent of the States. (Att'y-Gen, Harman to Chairman Bynum, Aug. 1896.) (2) It takes from the Federal Gov't. the essential qualities of a government. (a) It declares that the U. S. shall not protect its property nor uphold its laws within...
...benefits which might spring from the proposed Union, and that a large proportion of the students now in Cambridge are ready to use such an institution. We have the approval of the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, and the Faculty. The Professional School students, for whom no social affiliations exist, welcome the project; the undergraduates, who feel the effects of isolation, on the one hand, and cliqueishness on the other, desire its fulfillment; the athletic men look to it as a means towards supplying the unity and a common meeting-place, now sadly lacking. The graduates, wherever heard from, have...