Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are in the life of a college class very few occasions on which the class as a whole is brought together in a social way. There are very few times when anything like a genuine spirit of class attachment exists to make men feel that the ties of classmateship are something more than a mere name. The few class meetings which are held during the college course help in a slight way to promote this feeling of attachment to the class and a realization of what a class really means and stands for; but there is hardly anything which...
...agitating itself over the problems of society, there should be at Harvard so few opportunities of learning in what the real difficulties consist and of studying the scientific way of solving the problems. This past year has been especially unfortunate in this lack of opportunity to study the social world, for the past year saw the absence of both the instructors who up to that time had conducted the only courses dealing with the great social problems. The need of offering instruction on the subject of the workings of society is one to which the college seems to be opening...
...would be shown a spirit of co-operation far different from anything that the college as a whole has ever possessed. Nearly every man who comes to Harvard expects to enjoy life more or less. It cannot be all study, nor yet all athletics. He must keep up his social interest with the outside world. To be tied down to college bounds and not given any time to go about, to do anything, or to see anybody would seem to most the height of unjust almost tyrannical restriction. Yet this is just the slavery to which the crew men voluntarily...
...Socialism and Social Problems...
Such a building is undoubtedly one of the greatest of the material needs of the University at present. The athletic interest is centured in four excellent buildings, and some of the social clubs have club houses; but the religious interest, which probably appeals more or less to at least 1500 of our 2000 students in Cambridge, is left, except for the services in Appleton Chapel, to be fostered in comparatively obscure rooms or in recitation halls. The great service of the religious building would be that, while affording accommodations for many purely social, literary or academic interests, it would...