Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proverbial the jealousy between a man's mother and his wife; proverbial the trouble that an old love affair will cause to a new relationship. Yet Author Sedgwick takes the two threadbare situations, weaves bright new colors into the pattern...
...other changes have been made. Three special fields have been opened, one treating types of sociological theory, another the relationship which does and should exist between the individual and society, and the third the social history of the United States. The final change is a widening in the number and range of the related courses which will be required. Preparation for the final examination at the end of the Senior year will involve selection of courses in the several social sciences offered by different departments. Students will be expected to attain in these, by the close of their Sophomore year...
Between these two cases, as in a twilight zone, lies the treacherous field of common-law marriage. Only the hairline of intent divides such a legal union from the lover-mistress relationship...
...length of time they live together (varying in practice from one to seven years); 5) their public and social conduct as man and wife. Children by such a union, the existence of a settled home, and the community's recognition, all tend strongly to confirm the relationship as bona-fide...
...darkened by deliberate secrecy. Courts generally hold that the good faith of one party sustains such a union, regardless of the mental reservations of the other. Promiscuity, neglect, cruelty, etc., open the door to legal separation as in any statutory marriage. The secrecy usual in a lover-mistress relationship prevents its becoming a common-law marriage unless time dispels the cloak and establishes public and personal acceptance of the union...