Word: social
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last, the deb has come into her own. After decades of neglect she has finally been noticed. Yesterday's "Traveler" devoted paragraphs to her sorry plight, and with an acutely sympathetic pen limns a detailed picture of the tortures and agonies of the social round...
...disturbance caused in social circles of Boston a few years ago when a gentleman of undistinguished lineage tried to change his name to Cabot, has been duplicated in the Records Office at University Hall, it was discovered yesterday...
...each week to meet and talk informally with men in the University. Scholars such as the Charles Eliot Norton chair brings to Cambridge have much to give which cannot find effective presentation in set lectures. The sort of education and culture which finds its highest expression in a cultivated social intercourse is admittedly more fully developed on the other side of the Atlantic than it is on this newer continent, and visiting professors can add richness and color to a college training by helping American educational institutions to a fuller appreciation of its value...
...from whatsoever causes arising by other than pacific means.' This definitely makes the obligation to keep peace just as much a part of the law of the United States as it is of the law of the world and West Point is therefore an out in wed, illegal anti-social institution...
...students of the subject will quarrel with his description of the disease. Predominant in every American college and university at present are the social activities of student life, and of these the most important, from the point of view of the public, are the athletic. Membership in the varsity football team represents the peak of undergraduate attainment, and from that the scale of values grades down through the lesser sports, through the glee and mandolin clubs, the dramatic society and the comic weekly to the bottom of scholastic excellence. Education, the nominal object of every college student, plays second fiddle...