Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some colleges already associations among the students have sprung up akin in their aims to the Harvard clubs of the great cities. Students from any particular locality have banded themselves together for the purposes of social amusement, of encouraging and aiding in increasing attendance at their own college from the locality they represent, and of advancing their mutual interests while in college. There are many reasons why a plan like this or some modification of it might well be adopted at Harvard. A club formed among the students of San Francisco, from New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, or from...
...also a fact that colleges and college-bred men have done their share in performing the only really effective work that is being done at all-as it seems to some-to improve the condition of mechanics and handicraftsmen, and in placing them in their right relation to the social body, and establishing this relation on solid foundations. And how ? By inculcating broad and full views of life ; by connecting intelligence with mechanical pursuits and thereby both dignifying them and informing them with a genuine interest...
...superfluous woman of New England. The Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of the Higher Education of Women, under whose protecting wings the Annex has flourished to its present stage of success, has done more to solve the perplexing problem of super-abundant women and decreasing marriages that is distressing social philosophers, than all the theorizing and sad predictions of which the talking folk have been guilty.-[Globe...
...startling suggestion to Americans. Under such a system it is probable that the majority of, for example, the Harvard faculty would still be in the leading-strings of "Finals" and "Semis;" but then the query arises, "Who would constitute the teaching body if all the professors became undergraduates? A social system which can support a learned class of such disinterested devotion to a life of study must either be exceedingly wealthy or exceedingly despotic. The import of the passage after all is only that the class of which college students in China are composed never contains any Philistines, while...
...they eat or wear, and that they would be ashamed of themselves if they needed much money. The actual professor is, however, a totally different person. He is mostly a modern American, fond of books and teaching, and study it may be, but also fond of such of the social and oesthetic pleasures of his time as he can afford. The proof is that there is, we believe, no case on record of a wealthy professor living with the Spartan simplicity which college trustees try to persuade themselves that all professors love...