Word: social
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...German society are poorly paid, and, not only make no attempt at display, but look on display or luxury as vulgar. They get the consideration which they enjoy, not from their means, but from their position. The possession or acquisition of money is, therefore, not a sign of social success. A man's wife and children are not troubled by his not possessing it. Some of the most highly placed and respected men in the community live no better than the German professor does, entertain no better and have as little money as he has. Consequently the world at large...
...absorbed in the pursuit of things not seen, and by no means with reference to the wants of the ordinary American man of our time, whom we have to get to fill nearly all our salaried positions, with a wife who likes comfort and expects some share in the social life around her, and children who chafe, as all children do, under poverty, and like a taste of the good things that are going. The result has been simply that the leading lawyers hardly ever go on the bench, and that the ablest business men will not accept political positions...
...gentle intimation recently put forth by the Daily Advertiser, the alleged special mouthpiece of Harvard University, that some of the social features which have hitherto marked the observance of commencement day at the university were no longer to be tolerated within the college precincts, has made a commotion among the alumni scarcely less profound than that occasioned by the action of the overseers in refusing to confer an honorary degree on Governor Butler. The exact meaning of this semi-official utterance was not fully understood at first, but the plain English of it was taken to be that the flowing...
...names assumed by literary or social clubs in some of the colleges are sometimes fearfully and wonderfully constructed. The most curious instance of the peculiar talent of the classical student which manifests itself in inventing these names, we find in the name of a society at Tufts College, which is called the "Zetagathean." Zetagathean, we are inclined to believe, would be hard to beat...
...have mentioned so far only the more specific social enjoyments. Most of the fraternities board together, each at some private house or occupying a table at one of the hotels. There are many little eating clubs among the neutrals, some of them having their tennis courts and other devices for recreation. About half of the students board in commons at College Hall, a custom which is well known at Harvard, as practised at Memorial Hall...