Word: social
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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JUNIOR FORENSIC.The fourth junior forensic will be due on April 17. Subjects: 1. A criticism of the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the legal-tender case. 2. England's Egyptian policy. 3. A criticism of Summer's "What Social Classes owe to each other." 4. What are the conditions under which a Republican form of government may be expected to be permanent? 5. Have we any knowledge independent of experience? [Any of the subjects for the fourth senior forensic may also be taken by juniors...
...Triennial Catalogue of 1776 was the first in which the names of the students of Harvard College appeared in alphabetical order. Before that date the students of each class were arranged in order, according to the rank which their parents held in the social world. A good story is told of a shoe maker's son who came to Harvard. When asked as to what station his father held in life, he replied that he held a position on the bench. The student was accordingly ranked among the upper men of his class...
...freshman class was arranged in their social order, or placed, to use the technical term, within six or nine months after entering college. The names of the students were written in order of precedence in a large German text, and placed in a conspicuous part of the college buttery (a sort of supplement to the commons) with the names of the other three classes. If a man was expelled, his name was taken off the list; if degraded, his name was put below that of a classmate who held a lower place in the social scale...
...times and was a relic of English aristocracy brought to this country by our forefathers. If the feelings and sentiments which prompted it had been allowed to increase much harm would have come to our colleges, as we can hardly conceive of the extent to which these social distinctions might have been carried, with their attending discomforts, unless interrupted and destroyed by that spirit of freedom and equality which was the primary cause of the Revolution...
...much for examples of approximations to the ideal. Now what can be done by individuals to help towards the attainment of the ideal? After a few suggestions about the training of personal character for the benefit of society, the lecturer went on to discuss the social tendencies that help and that hinder the realization of this organic ideal. Conservatism, the lecturer thought, is often a direct help to progress, because conservatism insists that progress shall be rationally comprehensible, and so organized. Conservatism represents the tendency to think new experiences in old forms, and so to continue definite habits of thought...