Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Robert Treat Paine fellowship under which Mr. Edward Cummings, '83, is at present studying social problems abroad, is likely within a short time to result in the location by Mr. Cummings of a work in Boston which shall be directly connected with Harvard University and which shall do for the more degraded parts of Boston what Toynbee Hall, as the representative of Oxford University, has done for the slums of East London...
...sketch of the new science, its method and scope; the anthropological method illustrated by special subjects, such as the old and new ideas of the world, man's age in the world, his physical and mental development, the question of progress or retrogression: sociology and the development of the social condition; and the advantages to be gained from anthropological study. The lectures will be open to the public...
Over a thousand invitations were sent out for the junior ball, which was one of the most successful social events ever held in the College Hall...
...with articles on General Washington and events connected with his life. The leading article by the editor, Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, is entitled "Washington as President." The seat of government was then in New York. It is an account of Washington's presidential life in New York city. The social and official sides of his life are minutely portrayed. The article is extremely entertaining and the interest is increased by two full-page pictures of Mrs. Washington's reception day, also a print of the executive mansion which was never used. The essay covers twenty-three pages...
...increasing annually, and while the number of those students choosing other colleges after graduation is in proportion to the increased number, the number who come here is at a stand. Still great stress has been laid to success in athletics drawing men to Yale and Princeton, but the social clubs which the graduates of Exeter had the good sense to form at those colleges exerted a great influence on men who had not quite decided before graduation what college to choose. Steps ought to be taken at once to form similar clubs here, not only with regard to Exeter...