Word: social
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instructors of the youths were divided into two classes, and all had an equal social position in the democracy. Their places of instruction were built together and there the youth of Athens spent their days; one class taught how to search for the beautiful, the other taught beauty itself. The young men arrived in the morning early and soon were engaged in the forenoon bath, which is, perhaps, too much neglected by our trainers. This occupied over an hour, for they took hot and cold baths, then a swim, and finally the more fastidious youths appointed themselves...
Harvard, together with Yale, Columbia and other colleges, should lead the thought of the country on all points and at all times. It is to Harvard men and Yale men the people should look with more respect when any great economic or social question is under discussion, and it should be their opinions which control the will of the people rather than the opinions of the so-called "self-made" men, - men who made a success in one direction - that of acquiring wealth - not by virtue of their ignorance, but in spite...
...senior class of Columbia College, New York, have voted that "co-education is undesirable from the educational, social and moral standpoint." The "standpoint" of the Columbia senior seems to be the peaceful posing on the biggest pile of college endowment in America, blandly waving aside the opposite sex as educationally, socially and morally incompatible with his perfect and exclusive enjoyment of a particularly good thing.-[Woman's Journal...
...first of Prof. Sumner's series of articles on "What Social Classes owe to Each Other," appears in the last Harper's Weekly. The special title of this article is, "On a New Philosophy: That Poverty is the best Policy...
...annual meeting last evening was eminently satisfactory. The growth in members and usefulness of the society has been most marked, and is a credit to its managers as well as to the college at large which has carried out so successfully such an important experiment in the theories of social science. The completion of the year with a balance of over $300 proves that the theory on which the society has been conducted is sound, and that the estimates made by its officers and the fees and percentages established have been well judged. With reasonable support and sensible management...