Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Debates are held once a week, - the debating-hall seating about 400. The subjects are as varied as possible, and constant efforts are made to prevent the debates becoming purely political. Social questions are not unfrequently discussed, whilst there are, occasionally, pure scientific or literary debates. There is no doubt, however that politics give rise to the most animated debates, - the house always being crowded when the principles of conservatism or liberalism are at stake. As to the 'style' of the debate, the House of Commons is closely followed. No one is allowed to name a speaker, - all are spoken...
...double of England or America are very different persons, for practical morals are never questioned here, nor have we different codes for different classes of society. But in essentials they are the same. The accident which changes a bourgeois into an artiste does not give him the social training, or, as the French call it, the savoir vivre, requisite of a gentleman, much less his delicacy of feeling. Wordsworth certainly was superior to bourgeois, but De Quincey might well be pardoned for denying the name of gentleman to a man who cut the leaves of a book, in the author...
...view, we confess, American college life seems a hot-house, producing, not gentlemen, but artistes. The majority of men coming to college from elsewhere than the social world of the great cities are pure bourgeois. They have the big virtues and the little, - regard for the truth and virtuous recoil from ponying. They have read nothing but the Requirements for Admission and high-toned books, and scorn all literature but such as "fits them for the work of life." Cards are not only a waste of time, but evil in themselves; and the theatre an abomination...
...Bratt, not content with making Faith the origin of so many worlds, adds that it is also the origin of so many worlds, adds that it is also the origin "of the social, civil, political, and religious world, from a needle to a navy and from a penny whistle to an organ...
...time, the criticism of the Argus is to a certain extent just. The quantity of matter which we receive is not all that we could wish, and does not allow us all the liberty of choice that could be desired. Our fellow-students have an excuse in the numerous social duties which the neighborhood of a great city entails. But we wish that more generous contributions from them might tend to raise, us nearer to the inattainable standard of our Middletown contemporary...