Word: social
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great reforms which the impulse of freedom produced. Even when the old dynasty returned in 1815 and attempted to sweep away all the effects of the Revolution, they were eventually obliged to establish a government even freer than Napoleon's They could not restore a trace of the social inequalities, The new government established in 1830 was no contradiction of the Revolutionary principles but a step nearer a republic than the reactionary Bourbonism had been. It proved, however, impossible for the new king to follow the movement toward liberty, and he was driven from his throne. The government of Napoleon...
...company with $100,000 capital is behind it, composed of some of the best literary and social elements of New York and Philadelphia. To a young man of a literary turn, who is able to command a small sum as an investment, in order that he may be a principle, a leading position is available, and an opportunity is offered for a name and a profitable life work. Technical newspaper training is not necessary. Idlers will please not write to us; we hope to hear from a young man who means business...
Professor Lyon's lecture yesterday afternoon was based on a collection of tablets, sixty-five in number, presented by Mr. Stephen Salisbury to the Harvard Divinity School. Preliminary to the exhibition of the tablets the lecturer spoke of the general class of writing to which they belong, the civil, social, and translated several published documents from the reigns of Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonida. These translations related to gifts to the temples, loans, sale of slaves and real estate, marriage, partnership and legal decisions. Such information makes it possible for us to have a very clear view of the social life...
...University now possesses three collections of these documents relating to Babylonian private and social life, one of purchase, one the gift of Mr. E. L. Mason and the Salisbnry collection. A new collection is on its way from London, It is to be hoped that the friends of the University may make it possible for us to secure many such. Harvard ought to be a prominent center for the remains of the mighty Semitic civilization...
...ascertain the sentiment of the Harvard Y. M. C. A. in regard to this matter that the meeting was called. It was unanimosly voted that Harvard raise her share of the necessary amount. The latter part of the evening was spent by the members in a social...