Word: social
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Character. - Decidedly aggressive. General who-yer-look'n'-at air. Strong sense of freedom and equality of all American citizens, - negroes and social inferiors excepted. Fondness for sporting, especially billiards and dog-fancying. Always ready to bet, - particularly if in possession of facts not known to general public. Astonishing stomachic capacity - especially for liquors. Unequalled powers of invective. Conversation replete with humorous anecdote, in some respects resembling that of Class I. Has frequently conceived aversion from cold water. Seldom congenial to persons of other classes. Not to be trusted...
...attention has been called to the preceding extract from a Boston paper of Monday last. Several private complaints of a similar sort have reached us. These complaints are not without foundation. When boating-men invite their fair friends to witness their exploits, they should remember that the social condition of the nineteenth century materially differs from that of antique Arcadia...
HARVARD men are certainly as fond of social pleasures as the men of any other college; but it seems to me that this would hardly be evident to an outsider, from our ways of manifesting our tastes in this direction. We have, to be sure, a few purely social societies, others social and literary; but both, the first in particular, are limited in their scope, and of course confined to a certain number. Other means of social enjoyment in college we have not. A Harvard Union, the plan for which was ably set forth in a recent number...
There is one time at which the men of a class are thrown together for social enjoyment, at a time too when the pleasantest feelings are uppermost. Our class-suppers are confessedly pleasant occasions; they are looked forward to, are attended by the majority, and are classed among the pleasantest memories of the past. Why is it, then, that at Harvard each class passes only one evening of sociality together? At many other colleges the custom prevails of having suppers every year, and everywhere, so far as my knowledge goes, these suppers form one of the pleasantest parts of college...
...course in Political Economy. Course VIII. of this year becomes Course V. for 1875-76, and an advanced course is open to students who have passed on an elective course in Political Economy in 1875, comprising "Cairnes' Leading Principles of Political Economy," "McKean's Condensation of Carey's Social Science," "Blanqui's Histoire de l'Economie Politique," "McLeod on Banking." With the great interest shown in Political Economy, it is to be hoped that as many electives will be given as practicable. A "passing" knowledge of our amiable friend Mrs. Fawcett's little primer would prevent many of the ridiculous...