Word: social
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...devised for this purpose an outward character, suitable to the climate of the locality that will serve to foster the growth of refined, but simple and inexpensive tastes; third, to favor the formation, in connection with the university, of a community instructively representative of attractive and wholesome conditions of social and domestic life. The design of the building now in progress is a novel one. There is a central quadrangle, its four sides formed by a continuous arcade of stone, 18 feet high, 20 deep and 1700 long. Opening from the arcade are to be a series of structures...
...societies, the CRIMSON'S petition for electric lights for the library, and a quotation from Mr. Joseph Lee's letter to the Boston Herald, which has aroused so much comment recently. The last editorial is a little unfair in its anxiety to be candid. It says, speaking of the social standing of real students: "Little distinction is made between a man who studies hard and at the same time develops other sides of his life, and the man who does nothing but study. The same semiopprobrium attaches to each. Because a man does any work he apt to become...
...Knowlton of the Supreme Court, Walter Quincy Scott, D. D., of Phillips Exeter Academy, Arthur T. Hadley, M. A., of New Haven, and others have been invited and are expected to be present. A business meeting will be held during the evening. In order to make the occasion as social and informal as possible, songs will be sung by a portion of the Yale Glee Club...
...Yale Junior Promenade will occur next Tuesday evening. This is the great society ball of the season and holds a far more prominent place there than any social event does here. The arrangements, as now made, promise that the promenade this year will exceed in brilliancy those of previous years. The decorations, by Gunzel of New York, will be on the same general plan as last year, but more elaborate. The dance music will be played by Landor's orchestra and Wheeler and Wilson's band will play during the intermission. The programme is as follows...
...Verein to invite prominent men to speak at Harvard has secured some of the most interesting lectures of this term. The societies show in this action an encouraging sign of life and energy and an effort to bestow a genuine benefit upon the whole college outside of the social advantages they offer to their own members...