Word: social
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last themes written in English 12 are to be used by Mr. Wendell as a basis for a Magazine article on Social Life at Harvard...
...magazine, much valuable work which is now lost for the want of a proper medium may be brought together and saved, a stimulus may be given to scholarly research and discussion, and important assistance afforded to those who are interested in the solution of the great economic, financial and social questions of the day. And with this belief your co-operation and support are invited with confident hope...
...given over to expensive living because of the above cited existing abuses, so called, is to deny the exceptional advantages offered to and embraced by students of small means to pursue studies at Harvard, - advantages which confessedly surpass those presented by any other American university. A struggle for social position with all its attendant expenses is absolutely unavoidable among students thrown together, as are those of Harvard. Those who are most determined to secure such position will not consent, nor do their friends so encourage them, to a return to the Puritan methods of life. We deplore the evils resulting...
...like one huge base-ball celebration open to the whole of Cambridge and Boston. We speak very plainly about this; it is an unpleasant subject to handle, but it must be firmly and forcibly demonstrated to the outside world that their uninvited presence is not desired at the greatest social event of the college year. What are policemen and fences good for in making this understood if we furnish the enemy with the password to the citadel...
Prof. Sumner, of Yale, has engaged to deliver two lectures at the summer meeting of the Chautauqua Association at Chautauqua lake. His subjects are: "The Present Social Crisis in This Country," and "Capital and Labor...