Word: social
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Among his other wise sayings Aristotle remarked that man is by nature a social animal; and it is in order to develop his powers as a social being that American colleges exist. The object of the undergraduate department is not to produce hermits, each imprisoned in the cell of his own intellectual pursuits, but men fitted to take their places in the community and live in contact with their fellow...
...Prospect Union will open its nineteenth year of work in Cambridge next Monday evening at 744 Massachusetts avenue. The Union is an educational and social club for men, conducted by wage-earners and by students, and teachers from Harvard University. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education, through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers...
Permit me through your columns to call the attention of students in all the departments of the University to an opportunity for social service in Cambridge. During the next few days the Prospect Union aims to put before every workingman in Cambridge the opportunities for education that Harvard is providing for him through the Union. For this work a large number of men, are needed at once as speakers, advisers teachers, etc. There will be almost 200 meetings of labor unions, clubs, lodges, factory groups, etc., within the next month to which volunteers will be assigned to describe the work...
...Phillips Brooks House reception to Freshmen is primarily a social gathering intended to bring new men into pleasant contact with members of their own and other classes. Secondarily it is planned with the idea of bringing before new-comers a comprehensive view of extra-academic interests. The men who will speak are thoroughly representative of the different phases of official and undergraduate life, and they will describe activities in which members of the entering class must sooner or later take part...
...early, we believe, to attempt to impress the members of 1913 with the importance and value of these things. Phillips Brooks House itself is a centre of philanthropic, religious and social interests which should commend themselves to many students in the University. To make its enterprises successful it needs a large number of enthusiastic and persistent workers from every department. In athletics the new class has the enviable record of 1912, with its four victorious teams, to follow. Undergraduate papers and magazines, musical and dramatic organizations, debating clubs,--all these offer unequalled opportunities for the use and development of special...