Word: social
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...live in better times than the Puritans, and we think that their rugged dutiful lives were much harder than was necessary. We live in luxury, sometimes we sneer at duty, and unfortunately there is not among us a great deal of simple and strong faith in God Many social evils of today we can trace to the lives of luxury led by some and to the carelessness of duty in others. If we are inclined to smile at the stern religion of the Puritans let us remember that on the firm rock of their faith was founded our state...
...international congress of clergymen of all denominations. When this proposal was made public it received the support both of the Oxford Church influence, consisting of Cardinals Manning, Newman and others, and of the broad church, comprising men like Arnold and Dean Stanley. The very general and active desire for social reform was also a great aid to the movement. The Conference was necessarily held abroad on account of the social prejudices which exist between denominations in England. The chief cause of these divisions is ignorance of one another and of one another's beliefs; knowledge of others is necessary...
...Jesus show his pity for the poor, their hunger, their ignorance, and their lack of leaders? He had no patent remedy, no ingenious social reform schemes. He said: "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into the harvest." That is the only way to save the poor. There must be laborers and the labor is for college men. Will Harvard stand forth to its own glory for truth and justice and pity for the poor, or will it to its everlasting shame shrink back and let the poor take care of themselves...
...Glee Club of New York City will give its first concert Saturday evening in the concert hall of Madison Square Garden. This is a club of college men whose object is "to encourage male voice music of the highest excellence, to give musical receptions and concerts, and to promote social intercourse among college graduates and former college students residing in or near New York City." Besides the active members, who number 52, there is a large list of associate members. The colleges represented among the active members are: Columbia 18, Princeton 10, Yale 9, Rutgers 3, Harvard 2, Union...
...present term witnesses the greatest social event of the year at Yale - the Junior Promenade. The class germans, receptions and other festivities of the week begin on Monday and end with the Junior Prom., on Wednesday night. The '96 committee have exerted themselves to out-do their predecessors and it is safe to predict that they will succeed. A commendable change is the initiative taken by the committee in checking the tendency toward extravagance. The marked reduction in the price of boxes and the lowering of other expenses stand as a precedent that will doubtless be followed in the future...