Word: social
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Exactly what form the permanent arrangement would take we do not know. The chief thing asked by the students would be that the social life be not seriously disturbed. If the arrangement were to be permanent, we should think it unjust to keep general tables. All should be made the same. To have club tables with one man to one seat is the ideal arrangement which we wish might be kept but which we are convinced cannot be. When different men suggest seventeen, eighteen, nineteen or twenty-two men at tables of fourteen seats, they simply express the limit...
...first is that the social side of the life at Memorial should not be sacrificed. No one, we suppose, would be inclined to deny that the principle of making the number of men larger than the number of seats, when carried to the extent that it is at the general tables, does sacrifice this to a great degree. With such bad results close at hand, the students at the club tables naturally feel opposed to the extension of this system or to the introduction of any system which seems largely similar. They believe that the opportunity for companionship and leisurely...
...Still further, this same feeling is carried into the very life of the oarsmen. The crews mingle at Putney in a thoroughly delightful manner, exchanging social amenities at quarters, and on occasion following one another about the river in the coaching launch. There are no spying substitutes sent out to return with tales that neither deteriorate the form of the watched nor improve that of the watcher...
...VARSITY GLEE, BANJO AND MANDOLIN CLUBS.- Concert tonight in Brattle Hall for benefit of Social Union. Men will please be on hand at ten minutes of eight...
...GREENE.THE 'Varsity Glee Banjo and Mandolin Clubs will give their usual concert for the benefit of the Social Union in Brattle Hall, Thursday evening, at 8 o'clock...