Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...around the country, visiting the many beautiful places of natural scenery, for which this region is so celebrated. The summer guests have all left for the pleasures and excitements of the city; and almost of necessity must the two hundred and fifty students look to their own resources for social enjoyment. Considering these circumstances, I believe I can safely say that at no other college is there so much ingenuity exercised in attaining this enjoyment, and that nowhere is there found so strong a feeling of fellowship. Few in numbers, nearly every man is known, if not personally, at least...
...this way a fraternal feeling is inspired which is nearly impossible when the student is occupied by endless external attractions, the political speech, the lecture, the concert or the theatre-though it must not be thought that he is averse to such enjoyments, for he is alive to these social pleasures, as well as to others of a less public character...
What has been said applies with more or less aptness to the neutrals who, of course, have not their special places of resort, nor, in many cases, the abundance of resource which, here at least, belongs so peculiarly to the fraternity man. The desire for social enjoyment is also met in many cases by the combining of fellows of like tastes and pursuits in little groups, musical clubs, German clubs, Shakespeare clubs and numerous other like organizations suggested by the social impulse of the student mind...
Each college has its own standing, either social or literary, and its men are judged accordingly. Christ Church has always been pre-eminently the college for noblemen, and many of England's most distinguished sons, among the nobility, have been graduated there...
There is a genial, social aspect about lawn tennis that has, no doubt, largely ministered to the growth of its popularity. It possesses no mysteries like the ancient and classic game whose name it has borrowed, and whose champions look down upon the intruder as rather a sorry sort of parvenu. A person who cannot be made to understand that the advance at a bound from "fifteen" to "thirty" is a perfectly natural numerical progression, that thirty is a matter of course leaps at once to forty, and that "deuce" is the parent of "vantage," must be singularly obtuse...