Word: social
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is a very small showing, too small to make any sort of a beginning. In consideration of this fact there will be another trial in the Glee Club rooms next Tuesday at 7 o'clock. Freshmen should realize that the Glee Club is one of the pleasantest social organizations of the first year in college and that the annual crew concert which ends the season, if a success, may prove an important factor in the prospects of the class at New London. Every man in '96 who can sing at all is urged to be present at the trial...
...credit to the class. This may be due, however, to ignorance of the pleasure and benefit which the freshmen get out of their club. The Glee Club has always proved a source of much pleasure to freshmen, for it generally brings together a good number of fellows in a social way, the rehearsals are not so numerous as to be burdensome, and there are always a number of concerts given throughout the year. The club generally receives invitations to sing at afternoon teas and receptions, and concerts are often given out of town. In addition to this there...
Sever 11 was well filled again last evening at the third of Professor Peabody's lectures on Social Ethics. He spoke on the question of marriage and divorce, their history, relation, and significance. Divorce is the negative side of the question; it is the symbol of inconstant family life. It has increased within the last thirty years almost three times as fast as the population, and it has come to be granted for trivial and even nonsensical reasons. The looseness that pervades the whole system has brought with it a moral shock and a consequent great social evil...
...must come to see that marriage is something more than a temporary compact between two people: they must realize that it is, through the family, the unit of civilization and the basis of lasting progress, and that the struggle between marriage and divorce is really the struggle of a social self, which leads to universal well-being, against a selfish self, which leads to chaos...
Ethics of the Social Questions. The Ethics of Charity. Professor Francis G Peabody. Sever...