Word: secret
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some ideas on the question of cooperation at Harvard. I know they are not popular at present, but I believe them to be just, and I fear that it will not be long before their truth is proved by practical experience. The essence of cooperation is cooperation, and the secret of success is concentration. Therefore, if cooperation at Harvard is to look for any success at all, all efforts towards it should be concentrated for the success of one experiment in the matter. No harder blow could be struck at the prospects of a cooperative society at Harvard than...
...Conalle of Albion College recently had his nose and jaw broken in being initiated into a college secret society. Of such a sort are the superior influences of Western College life...
...United States, the Parisian etudiant has no collection of songs. He sings 'Gaudeaumus,' it is true, and 'Lauriger Horatius,' but he has no songs that are French in the sense the song 'Was kommet denn von der Hoh' is German, and 'Upidee' is American. Nor has he secret societies. . . . The students of Paris have no press of their own. College journalism, though not unknown, has proved unsuccessful among them. The most long-lived of these short-lived productions appeared during a few months in 1879. This sheet was entitled Le Quartier Latin: Journal Humoristique, Litteraire et Scientifique, and it promised...
...event of the coming week will be the junior hop. It is given annually to the junior class by the members of the secret societies. Of these societies I will say more in the next letter. The hop draws many visitors to the town, most of them ladies, as there are hardly enough in Ann Arbor to supply partners for the devotees of the dance...
...townspeople as to be moving in a region of irresponsibility, these customs of college lawlessness have hitherto resisted even the march of the nineteenth century civilization. The tenacity with which they resist all attempts at eradication would almost seem to show that they are grounded in nature. But the secret is they had their rise in the days of arbitrary college government; they were revolts against over-rigid discipline, and having become deeprooted traditions, and also maintained by the savage impulses that still linger in human nature, are hard to abolish. But the day is not far distant when college...