Word: social
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidently the Wellesley girl is a sort of golden mean. Students are familiar with the studious Vassar girl, the social Smith type, and the athletic maiden of Bryn Mawr. Perhaps the explanation for the number of letters which travel from Harvard to Wellesley every day is explained by the fact that the Wellesley girl is near at hand. Or perhaps she is, as has been suggested above, the happy combination of the qualities of students at the three other leading feminine colleges of the north...
...belong to the true Oxford, and conversely that foreign students in American colleges can never hope to get the benefit from their college years that American students receive. But the make-up of the Harvard Law School places every man on an equal footing. There is a minimum of social distinction, and an equal opportunity lies before native and foreigner alike. The fortunate combination of unexcelled facilities for study, and the freedom from social handicaps arising from nationality, should enable the nosiness under the Pugsley gift to get the fullest advantage from their years of study at Cambridge...
...oversight of Who's Who (your social register) is another proof of its unimportance. He would certainly merit mention as much as the cinemactors and politicians that fill its pages...
Candidate Rubio is pledged to carry out the Party's aggressively radical economic and social programs. He shares the attitude toward Catholicism of General Calles who, while President of Mexico, publicly defied what he called "the grunts of the Pope." Betting odds favor Candidate Rubio so overwhelmingly that, taking a hint from the last U.S. election, he is campaigning with an air of ignoring his opponents, refusing to descend to debate with them...
...seem a trifle dull today. There will be no bands marching through the Square and Anderson Bridge will carry only it's normal load of hurried pedestrians. But in Ann Arbor the trumpets will be sounding and the crowds thronging the streets while the Crimson provides a spectacle and social event which has furnished the university town with gossip and expectation for the last few months...