Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard upon "A Collection of Babylonian Tablets in Harvard College Library." This present collection of original documents is highly interesting. It contains fifty-eight tablets or fragments of tablets from Babylonia. They are all of the kind technically called "contract tablets" and give us an excellent insight into the social and private life of the time. The material is partly baked, partly unbaked brick. These tablets were dug up by the natives and sent to London, whence they came by purchase into the possession of Harvard College. In connection with the foregoing, it may be mentioned that Dr. Cyrus Adler...
...long time the constitution was faithfully observed, and literary exercises were held at every weekly meeting. The programme was as follows: Music, declamation, select readings, essays, and an oration. In the midst of this earnest work the social side of the society was not neglected. Five or six times during the year private theatriricals were given, and the Athenaeum farces gained a great local reputation. It is recorded that on one night, an invitation having been extended to the Institute, that society came in a body and enthusiastically applauded the play...
...college papers offer now the only opportunities to such men, but it is evident that these cannot satisfy the need. It is with a view to remedy this evil that the suggestion is made about a literary society for sophomores. Such an organization should have in it a social element, yet it should not be so strong as to exclude men of literary ability for the sake of personal friends. A society of this kind could not fail to be successful, and would be a great addition to our college life. If the suggestion seems good, will not the upper...
...political change will not cure a social evil. Home rule would only aggravate the troubles, whereas what is needed is an entire change of the land system throughout all Great Britain...
...meeting, feeling that the society outlived the purposes for which it was founded, and that there was consequently no further need of it, voted to disband. The society at the time of its organization was distinctly literary, but this feature had died out, and it had become merely a social club...