Word: social
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conclusion he said: The genuine Yale man is a gentleman, not necessarily the man of cultured manners and versed in the nicer requirements of social life, but the man who has the spirit of reverence for what is good of kindness towards others, of gentleness and self sacrifice and honor and truth The peculiarities of our social life lead to a certain boyishness of manner, but I do not for one moment doubt that the tendency of our life here is toward true gentlemanliness...
Prof. Trowbridge of Harvard will lecture before the Cambridge Social Union on electricity, Thursday evening...
Until 1786 the students at both Yale and Harvard were ranked entirely according to social standing. Such rank-lists of the classes were posted in the buttery at the beginning of the freshman year and were waited for expectantly. Yale was the first to abolish this vicious system of ranking for that of alphabetical order. Harvard followed in her wake five years later...
...Barrett Wendell's article in the last Lippincott's Magazine upon social life at Harvard attracts much favorable comment from the college press. The writer's own stand-point and his college social status can plainly be seen but he nevertheless writes with fairness and impartiality As Mr. Wendell is connected with the Harvard Faculty it would seem that competition for prizes offered by the Lippincott Publishing House is not limited to undergraduates. We hope that a large number of articles will be submitted from Cornell. - Cornell Daily...
...down four propositions: The land belongs to the people; communal ownership has never proved economical; private ownership under national control seems the best thing for us; if the state ever recalls its lands it must compensate the individual owners. We may learn so to co-ordinate private enterprise and social co-operation as to realize the divine order. - Extracts from Springfield Republican...