Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that eighty-six has voted to hold another dinner, it is to be hoped that the project may be carried out successfully. Eighty-five made the attempt without success, and, we are constrained to believe, made a grave mistake in losing so rare an opportunity for an evening of social enjoyment. Class feeling is slowly dying out at Harvard, a result attributable to many causes, and class dinners are among the few things left that can momentarily rekindle the smoldering embers of the old-time enthusiasm. We shall be greatly surprised if there is any difficulty in securing fifty names...
...which many men are members. There is a flourishing athletic club in the Institute which holds two or three meetings every winter and a field meeting in the spring. Tug-of-war pulling is one of their specialties, as several Harvard teams have found out to their cost. Social clubs and entertainments among the students are few. There is a glee club and orchestra, both of recent date, and two secret societies, to 2 G, composed of miners. and a chapter of the Gamma Sigma Upsilon, the civil engineers society. Hops at the gymnasium, a senior ball, and class suppers...
...Harvard, of late years, the freshman has been gradually rising in the social scale, until now, thanks to the system of electives, and the consequent obliteration of the sharply defined class lines, he is almost "as good as his betters." In speaking of the changes which have taken place in college life, an exchange says...
...farm if it would disturb her, etc., etc. Her hearty approval of the plan, her evident enjoyment of the cornet solo and college songs which followed, and still more the fact that she joined in and sang with them whenever she chanced to know the air, made things quite social, and the young men showed their appreciation by singing "Sweet Dreams Ladies," in an off hand manner, just as the one lone representative of the fair sex was unromantically, she hopes gracefully, ascending to the comfort of an upper berth. This was the only familiarity, surely a mild...
Prof. W. G. Sumner's little book, "Social Classes," has been translated into French...