Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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INTRODUCTION.I. The proposed University Club is designed to furnish the facilities of a city club to a large proportion of students and help to satisfy the social instincts of the vast number of men who are of necessity excluded from the smaller clubs, and it is moreover hoped that it will strengthen college spirit...
...which to meet would find one there.- (4) It would give a centre to college life.- (x) It would supply a meeting place for graduates.- (y) It would supply a point towards which students would gravitate for information and in leisure moments for recreation.- (e) It would increase the social life of the University.- (1) It would increase the number of dining clubs.- (2) It would give the students much greater opportunity of meeting their instructors.- (3) It would give visiting graduates an opportunity to enter for the time into Harvard life.- (4) It would supply the advantages...
...University Club would not increase social opportunities of men not in other clubs.- (a) It would not be a social club.- (1) Only small clubs are really social.- (x) Only in such can close friendships be formed.- (2) This club would be too large.- (b) Non-club men would not meet club men.- (1) Two sets of men have nothing in common.- (2) Nothing in new club to induce men to leave the old.- (c) Cliques would exist in the club.- (1) Cliques are indissolubly formed and fostered by preparatory schools and existing clubs...
bound together,- (x) They pursued same courses.- (y) Met together at prayers, etc.- (z) Numbers of class were small.- (2) Members of club would not feel themselves to be a social unit.- (x) They could not become acquainted with all fellow members.- (y) Would not be thrown together as were members of the class...
...Though a few may be benefited, yet the University club would not bring permanent social improvement.- (a) Increased numbers of the University would render it impossible for a University club to perform intended functions.- (1) In ten or twenty years proposed club could extend its advantages to comparatively few men.- (x) It is very probable that University will continue to increase at present rate.- (I) Only check on increase is growth of Western universities.- (II) Such growth is likely to be very slow.- (y) Such a club, ipse facto, must be of somewhat limited facilities.- (2) It would not then...