Word: social
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large influence on the commerce and politics of the future, and will take a high rank in the field of economic literature. Everybody should read this work, to get a thorough understanding of the principles that are destined before long to begin a new era in political and social reform in all countries. For sale in bookstores or by enclosing the price, 50 cents, to the publisher, Frank Rosewater, 989 Woodland avenue, Cleveland, Ohio...
...Progress," as Chuzzlewit's friend says, "has to a great extent removed this erroneous idea." Year by year student and teacher have continued to make advances toward each other, until they have now come to regard one another as valued friends, from whom much can be gained in the social intercourse out of the class-room. Especially is this true in the case of the younger instructors, in whom the remembrance of the trials and discouragements that often beset a man at college, is still sufficiently alive to enable them to appreciate the value of friendly advice and cheering support...
...regretted. That men, at a place like Harvard, should take little interest in the personal affairs of those about them, that they should be wholly absorbed in their own engagements, is very natural and easily understood. We are in the immediate vicinity of a great city, renowned for its social and literary brilliancy; a city with magnificent theatres and music-halls, and art galleries which receive the latest gems from foreign studios; we have at our command the best libraries in America, and with such opportunities as these, we do not feel the necessity of the old traditional college life...
...quivering with social fire...
...Harvard, notwithstanding the great advantages which the large number of students and our system of study give in pursuing outside work, we undoubtedly fall below that standard of excellence in our athletic and social affairs that would naturally be expected of us. This failing, in both branches, is due in great measure to that system which throws upon a few prominent men the management of the many different interests. But more important than that even, in the case of some of the societies for the pursuit of knowledge, is the lack of a qualification for membership. In the Natural History...