Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greatest prosperity and happiness to the human race. The influence of so large a number of resolute, able men, well educated, and fitted in every way to be the leaders of a great popular movement, must be regarded as a powerful and significant factor in the tremendous problems of social life, and the opinions and character of these students can not fail to be of great interest to all who sympathize with the oppressed and down-trodden of the earth...
...SOCIAL GAMES in a great selection...
...after all, people do not select the large colleges for their sons on account of the educational facilities offered so much as for the social advantages. As an example of the superior educational advantages of large universities, I might mention the case of two brothers, one of whom graduated from Rochester, and the other from Yale. The Yale man became very famous as a base-ball pitcher, but is now picking up a living as a cowboy. The Rochester man is a professor in a medical college at Cleveland, and is rapidly rising in his profession, although he has found...
Perhaps there is no pleasanter feature in Harvard life than this, or one that is more characteristic. He is but a poor representative of the social life of college who cannot remember his menus by the score, at the end of his four year's course. Many of the happiest memories of college life are those brought back to us by the sight of some bit of pasteboard tacked upon the door, the sole reminder of an evening of jollity. Let us, then, continue to honor the old Harvard custom, and hand it down for preservation to those...
...register our disapproval of the use of the gymnasium for such a purpose in the future. The invitation to a few of the students, a sop to Cerberus, will not lull the students in general to overlook the inconveniences arising from the preparation of the gymnasium for general social purposes, the danger from a slippery floor, and the misplacement of apparatus. We do not wish to grumble, or seem unreasonable; we would simply uphold the old mixim, of "a place for everything and everything in its place." If the general public of Cambridge desires a social reunion, let the public...