Word: men
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Houses are designed to help substitute for the schoolboy attitude of mind...Now contacts, good talk, wide range of friendships, flourish when men live in a community, and take their meals in the same dining room, not only with other undergraduates of different classes, types and early associations, but also with tutors...That is the meaning of the houses; but unfortunately some men do not appreciate these things and fail to take the full advantage of them until after the chance has gone...
...article illustrated Gold Coast living with sketches of young men lounging in their rooms, smoking cigars and generally enjoying the fruits of leisure...
...Boston has been a social leech of Harvard College...when the supply of eligible young men in Boston was decreased by the westward movement, the Boston mammas suddenly became aware that Harvard contained many appetizing young gentlemen from New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere...In vain are freshmen tossed onto the same heap; freshman fellowship, brisk enough in the opening days of College and the first elections of committees, blows away in a whiff of invitations to dances and week-end house parties. The social cleaver widened the chasm that a mistaken laissez-faire created between Yard and Gold Coast...
...year. The Institute chose the college's 100 most socially promising students and then ranked them in groups of 10, from the ultraprivileged to the "barely-elite." Local newspapers would publish the precise lists so all of the city could see "everybody who was anybody." Woe to those young men in the Yard far away from Gold Coast leisure and social success...
There is no longer the flurry of cotillion invitations and the constant sight of young men bedecked in top hats and tails strolling to their apartments on the Gold Coast to smoke a cigar under the light of a glowing chandelier. Nor the spectacle of languishing youths, waited on hand and foot by a faithful valet. However, the legacy of the Coast has not disappeared. Present-day inequity takes a subtler form...