Word: social
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...transact any business. They were a party without any central issue or any recognised leader. The Home Rule Bill, too, the affirmative tried to show was unpopular and undesirable. The negative rested their claims on the principles of the Liberal party. They maintained that it was the party of social reform. They also supported Home Rule, Welsh Disestablishment, Reform of the House of Lords and the other principles of the Newcastle Programs...
...decided to hold a social meeting at the Colonial Club, Thursday, Oct. 29. A number of graduates have promised to be present, and there will be some informal speaking by the old members. It was also decided to reproduce the original charter of the College to be used in a design for a certificate of membership. The following active members were elected: Alfred Borden '96, Philip D. Mason '96, W. Ainsworth Parker '96, F. H. Smith '96. A. Coolidge was elected chairman of the finance committee...
...Cambridge Social Union held its first public meeting of the year in Brattle Hall last evening. President J. G. Thorpe presided and addresses were made by Rev. Mr. Ely, Rev. S. M. Crothers, Professor F. J. Peabody, Mr. Ray Greene Huling, Principal of the Cambridge High School, and Mayor Bancroft. After the meeting light refreshments were served...
...Social Union will be conducted this year on the same general plan as last year but with a somewhat enlarged scope. H. S. Roberts '97 will live in the Social Union building and will be ready to help all those who come to him about the courses of instruction. Last year there were ninety students and at present there are over a hundred, while the lists are not yet complete. It is greatly desired that the work of the union should be more widely known among College men. The Educational Department is not, however, the only side of the Social...
This Student Volunteer work, therefore, is simply a cooperative effort by young men at Harvard to meet the problem thus created: to get hold of this thing called charity, philanthropy, social service, most simply and effectively,- to secure a real adaptation between it and the conditions of college life. The new activity must help, not hinder, the people or the causes that we venture to touch, and must enrich, not impair, student life...