Word: social
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evil of their unwarranted interference is a very great one. It seems to us that sometimes the proctors are not quick enough to remind too noisy students that there are others whose rights must not be infringed upon, even at the expense of a breaking up of a modest social gathering. Again it is urged that the present system of surveillance is a bad one. But is this true? Are the proctors put in the buildings to report disturbances or to prevent them? Most assuredly the latter. We are given to understand, from good authority, that the faculty does...
...hour of the night with the joyful news of newly elected members or the memories of an evening brawl. Surely the absolute certainty of awakening everybody within the range of their discordant sounds, cries for correction of its cause more than the doubtful disturbance of an evening's social gathering...
...numbers? Can she not rely sufficiently upon the advantages which a course of study at New Haven presents above a course of study pursued elsewhere to induce the young men of the country to adopt her antiquated systems? Or must an attempt be made to overpersuade, through friendship and social ties formed at school, young and undecided students who are too frequently led "to join the majority?" It is not strange that the spirit of Yale should prove more congenial to young men reared on the breezy plains of the great West, but when an attempt is made to force...
...institutions; they outlast particular forms of government and even the legal and industrial institutions in which they seem to be embedded. Harvard University already illustrates this transcendant vitality Its charter, granted in 1650, is in force to-day in every line, having survived in perfect integrity the prodigious political, social and commercial changes of more than two centuries. And still, after more than two centuries, do Winthrops, Endicotts, Saltonstalls, Bulkleys, Danforths, Rogerses, Hoars and Wigglesworths represent at these tables the founders of the college and the Commonwealth. Here, too, by our sides sit Adamses, Quincys, Cushings, Paines, Wards, Warrens, Emersons...
...quarters of this 19th century, technical theology itself was broken open and mingled itself with life? New sciences have claimed that they, too, have revelations to give us of the will and ways of God. The actual life of men, the problems of the personal soul, the perplexities of social life; these, as well as the abstractions of the intellect, have proved their power to awaken doubt and to inspire faith. You cannot separate theology any longer by sharp lines from psychology and sociology. The open doors of the college chapel, into which no man is henceforth driven...