Word: social
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tracing the development of Harvard, it has been noticed that in the change from a college to a university a condition has come about in which the majority of the students have no social affiliations. The result is a general feeling of social disintegration. Many small societies have been formed, but they have done little to remedy the difficulty...
Several graduates have conceived the idea that a union, founded on broad and hospitable lines, would serve to bind together the various athletic, social and intellectual interests of the students, and would do for Harvard what the unions at Cambridge and Oxford in England have done for these universities. It is also intended that the proposed club shall afford a meeting place for graduates who visit Cambridge...
...aims of the proposed University Club are such as will appeal to a majority of those who are familiar with the conditions of life at Harvard. It is the evident result of the elective system that community of interest, whether intellectual, or social, or athletic, is coming to have more and more influence in determining a man's companionships in college. This influence tends partly to weaken class feeling, and partly, by combining with it, to subdivide the members of each class into smaller groups of more or less closely affiliated members...
...exist at other colleges. But it very obviously does not admit of as much contact between men of different interests as is inevitable where they are thrown together in the same classes for four years. Such contact, if we had more of it, would mean, not that our present social relations would be materially altered, or that our clubs would fall into disuse, but that there would be greater sympathy between men of different tastes and interests,- a sympathy arising from a better knowledge on the part of each man, of the tastes and interests of his fellows...
WANTED.- One or two men who are willing to help in evening educational work. Leave address with educational director, Cambridge Social Union...