Word: social
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...evening to large parties. Englishmen coming to this country are much surprised to find that here, as a rule, two students instead of one rent a room and its accompanying bedrooms. Such a system no doubt has its pleasures. With a chum a man who is of social disposition is certain not to be left for any great length of time alone. More visitors are said to come to see two than to see one. Besides, - a most obvious advantage, - the expenses are lessened, so that a man of moderate means with a chum can take any room...
...savory viands in three courses. The tables groan under their unaccustomed burden, and the marble bust of our benefactor looks down upon the feast with an astonished but approving smile. How welcome is the after-dinner nap, undisturbed by that execrable four o'clock bell! And then, with a social game at whist in the evening, we forget that we are homeless...
Education itself has not escaped this inevitable law of centralization. For centuries schools and colleges have existed in France. Indeed, previous to the year 1789 there were already some twenty-one or twenty-two universities. The Revolution came, and with it a great upheaval in the social world. People felt that they were about to leave behind the old established state of things to enter upon a life under entirely new conditions, and that for this new state of society new methods were essential...
...union there is strength, the social muscles of the University are developing finely. A number of new societies have been announced recently, and now two more are on the carpet. (The English Club has forsworn all foreign tongues...
...qualifications of applicants to be decided upon by an examination. The meetings of the club to be essentially social in character, at the same time that so re literary performances may be found useful in sustaining the interest. The expenses of the club will be inconsiderable, and will be defrayed by an initiation fee put at the lowest possible figure...