Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they consist in (1) a misconception of what constitutes thoroughness of research; (2) the detrimental predominance of the collector's frame of mind, and lastly the ill-judged and premarure introduction of allied studies into archaeology. People think it necessary to go back into the prehistoric development of Greek social life and art when they begin to teach archaeology. This would be more logical if the science were a more firmly established one. As it is, the true method of research seems to be to make a study of historical facts and examples of Greek art that we have before...
...publish a few paragraphs from Mr. Wendell's article on "Social Life at Harvard" in the current number of Lippincott's. This sketch, one of the most admirable, both for accuracy and for the general tone of treatment which have been published for some time, de serves the careful perusal of all who are interested in the welfare of "the foremost university of America." The paper is written with great care and presents most impartially the social condition of life at Harvard as it at present exists. With the exception of the one or two remarks of questionable taste...
...following is reprinted from the article by Mr. Barrett Wendell in the January number of Lippincott's Magazine, on Social Life at Harvard...
...mean for an instant to give color to the charge, which would be absurd if it were not so frequent, that money is a recognized standard of social position at Harvard, that men of limited means are deliberately excluded from any college society, or that a man is ever elected to one simply because he is rich, much as certain public men are elected to the Senate. A man who has nothing but money to recommend him is much more surely put in unenviably conspicuous solitude at Harvard than in most parts of the world...
...mischief; nothing better helps him out if he has once fallen in. The importance, then, of securing for students who come from a distance some introduction to people living near the college can hardly be overestimated. I am informed, I may add, that some find such social life as introductions would bring in membership of the churches of Cambridge...