Word: social
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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CLASS DAY, '94.- Brattle Hall can be engaged for a spread and dancing. Apply at Social Union Rooms, 42 Brattle...
...Prospect Union." John Graham Brooks has written short summaries of the first two of the course of lectures on economics which he is giving at the Union. The two other leading articles are "The New Trade Unionism," by Robert A. Woods of the Andover House, Boston, and "Social Settlements in the United States," by Mr. Ely, president of the Union. Both of them are interesting and well worth being read by every...
...Review says of itself that it "is conducted in the interests of the Prospect Union and of social and educational progress along the lines of university extension and university settlement work." It is published twice a month during term time, with two numbers during the summer. The subscription price is fifty cents a year. Though the obect of the Review is not primarily to make money, it is hoped that some money for the Union can be made by it. It should be understood that "contributtors, editors, and advertising solicitors receive no financial compensation whatever for their services in connection...
...this system works admirably. It has increased the social life; each house has its own parlors, and each of the women's buildings has its own dining room...
...temptations and blessings. But wealth is not good enought to be worth all the efforts of a man's life, and here many make the great mistake, for certainly there are thousands who spend all their strength in its acquirement. Others make the object of life the attainment of social or political honors. Life is none of these; it does not consist of honor or gold, or of rank, but it is rather the development and perfecting of the character and the striving after an ideal manhood...