Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expressed the hope that all members of the university who were in sympathy with the work of the league even though not total abstainers themselves, would join it. He then introduced Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D. D., who said that the question which was before them was the principal social issue of the times whether in religion, in politics, or in general life. He reviewed the great changes which have taken place in regard to this great problem during the last decade, and also the great transition of point of view which has come to the people during that time...
...Minnesota, St. Paul and Minneapolis, have grown enormously during the past few years and the young men are looking to the east where universities offer more advantages for pursuing different branches of study than the few colleges near their own homes. Aside from the pleasure arising from the social intercourse between the students now in college, the club will doubtless prove a great benefit to freshmen coming from Minnesota as a means by which they may make friends early in their college course and be freed from that forlorn condition of straying aimlessly around during the first few weeks without...
...protective system enables us to obtain the greatest amount of wealth from our agricultural, manufacturing and commercial industries, and possesses inestimable social and political advantages:- C. D. Henning, The Advantages of a Protective Tariff; Stebbins, American Protectionist Manual...
...Conference Franchise is about to enter upon the third year of its existence. Last year was a most successful one in the history of the society. It had a membership of sixty, the majority of whom took an active interest in the literary and social advantages offered. A comedy was performed by the members in which they achieved marked success, the performance in every respect being far above the average amateur undertakings...
Prof. E. J. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, speaking in a publication of the Philadelphia Social Science Association, of the expansion of college work from its ancient narrow field of mathematics and the classics to the broader field in which modern languages, history, political economy, philosophy and the sciences occupy an equal place with mathematics and classics, writes as follows...