Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Resolved, That it is the fixed opinion and firm conviction of the senior class of Columbia College that the co-education of the sexes is undesirable from an educational as well as from a social and a moral standpoint, and that its introduction here would be a fatal blow to the future welfare and prosperity of the institution...
...association thus formed, under the name of the New England Association of Cornell Alumni, consists of ladies and gentlemen, graduates of the university since its formation in 1868, and of former under-graduated students, who are admitted to associate membership. The objects of the association are partly social, but mainly to secure concert of action on subjects of special importance to the alumni...
There seems to be no end to the muddle at Dartmouth College over President Bartlett: "It is matter of common knowledge," says the Post, "that the feeling over this question has become very deep, and that it has quite destroyed the old kindly, social life at Hanover, though it is not allowed to reach the students, and ostensibly everything is quiet. The only place where the contest can be fought out is in the board of trustees. We infer the majority think President Bartlett will live the opposition down and weary the alumni into indifference and subsequent forgetfulness...
...Course I. will be under their joint care and the same as this year, with the addition of "Elements in Banking." Pol. II. will be taught by Dr. Laughlin, and the course will be more comprehensive than the one given this year, embracing Professor Cairne's work, Carey's "Social Science and Lectures in the History of Political Economy." There will also be a higher course under the title, "Economic Effects of Land Tenure in England, Ireland, France, Germany and Russia." This is under Mr. Laughlin and will count as a one half course...
What earnest appeals we have from social moralists for the recovery of that lost art, "the old-fashioned girl," the girl who didn't wear bangs, nor high-heels, nor pull-backs; the girl who sewed, cooked and swept, instead of reading love novels and, like Boccacio, living them, as do the trifling flirts of today...