Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very pleasant evening in Proof Palmer's rooms. The example thus set by Prof. Palmer is certainly worthy of imitation by the other professors and instructors in college. It has always been urged against large colleges that in them the number of students is so great that close social intercourse between the men and their instructors is impossible. That this is in a great measure true, is evident from the very slight acquaintance which men in our own college have with their instructor. This is a fact greatly to be deplored; for it is undoubtedly a great deprivation...
...evident that the defeats which Harvard has suffered at Yale's hands are not to be attributed to Harvard ill luck. There can no longer be any doubt of the fact that Yale is essentially a more athletic college than Harvard. The reason for this is patent. The social conditions at Yale attract athletes; the social conditions at Harvard repel them. Yale's very being is bound up in athletics. She sacrifices everything for athletic victory...
...Harvard man as "a kid-gloved lamb." If, in order to beat Yale it will be necessary to adopt her general sentiments and her standards of conduct, we never want to win again. But is it not possible to raise our standard in athletics without lowering our social ideals, for we do not want to meddle with the social conditions here? It must be remembered that it was under these very conditions that the gentlemanly spirit of Harvard has been evolved; and surely a gentlemanly spirit cannot harm athletics...
...have heard that our editorial of Monday on the social question which is before the college, has been termed ambiguous. We had no idea that the plain statements contained in that editorial would be viewed in any such light, and we must confess that such lack of wit is only another argument for the position we have taken. It shows that there are a few men here who are so absorbed in the old regime that they cannot even appreciate that changes are taking place, much less understand the significance of those changes. To those who are still...
...right upon its side and its power is one which cannot lessen, but must increase with every day. There are times in the affairs of men when resolutions are necessary. At such times those who adhere to the past, perish miserably. We are living on the brink of a social revolution. Now is the time to make real merit the basis of our consideration, and to annihilate that provinciality and suicidal folly which has been cherished so lovingly in the past...