Word: social
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lecture on Social Problem. The Classification of Social Evils. Dr. Frederick H. Wines, of Springfield, Ill. Sever...
Lecture on Social Problem. The Genesis of Social Classes. Dr. Frederick H. Wines, of Springfield, III. Sever...
...believes, the result of our bad system of moral education in our primary and secondary schools, but of the idleness, the futility, the licentiousness, the egotism, the superciliousness, of too many members of this so-called nobility, who have learned absolutely nothing from the great revolution and from modern social evolution. Second, that the education to be obtained in the schools, lycees and universities of the French Republic, is infinitely more thorough, broader, more liberal, more moral than the narrow, loose and sectarian education of the religious orders and especially of Jesuits, who have been so vigorously and justly denounced...
...more than one-third of the College, are Massachusetts men. Boston boys grow up with the idea of making successful Harvard athletes as they know the social distinction at college this confers. New York men, although filling some of the clubs, furnish few athletes. Chicago has almost always representatives on some of the teams. Moreover, election to the clubs has been the reward of successful athletics. A great many of the members of 'varsity teams and crews have become club men chiefly through athletic success...
There are in Cambridge this year about 2900 students, of whom 1767 are in the Academic Department, 460 in the Law School, 340 in the Scientific School, 276 in the Graduate School, 41 in the Divinity School. So far as the committee are aware, the present social organizations embrace only undergraduates of the three upper classes of the Academic Department, and not more than 125 members of any class belong to those organizations. In other words, 2600 or 2700 men in Cambridge have no organized social connections whatever...