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Word: sociale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Handlin finds his influence divisive, Schlesinger noted last year in a review of Curley's own book, I'd Do It Again, "his sublime satisfaction in the successful struggle of the Irish community of Boston for political and social influence." It would be no academic feat these days to suggest that the two may be reconciled: that, in the name of all that is most Irish, Curley was urging his fellows to assume in political influence, social prestige and fact, with Curley, mind you, always at their head, a posture indistinguishable from that of the old proper Bostonians...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Harvard History of James M. Curley | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...here in the nursery of rushing that the social Yale man learns the tactics of success." --James H. Ottaway Jr. Yale Daily News...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Yale Fraternities: A Spawning Ground | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Dean of Undergraduate Affairs, Richard C. Carroll, however, considers such fun juvenile, and the IFC, always one jump ahead of the administration, is discouraging it. So strong is their self-restraint, that some fraternities are considering shortening pledging and promoting social service work...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Yale Fraternities: A Spawning Ground | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...Yale magazine Criterion, a rather class-conscious journal, in a recent article says that the fraternities are concerned with "organized friendliness and constant drinking," and cries out that "the ideals of the wealthy--social hierarchy and distinctions, exclusiveness, clubbiness, concepts of what is shoe or weenie--being the ideals of the alumni, have come to dominate Yale...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Yale Fraternities: A Spawning Ground | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...Yale press that their fraternities rest on liquid foundations and by the sinister descriptions of their alumni, it is still necessary to ask why the institutions exist. The answer seems to be that in their college system there is nowhere else for the Yalies to drink and be social. As one New Haven collegian is quoted in his press as saying, "I joined a fraternity because I couldn't fit a bar in my room." Other reasons seem to be prestige, ambition and the desire subsequently join to a secret society...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Yale Fraternities: A Spawning Ground | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

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