Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Within the past year the Cambridge Social Union has enlarged its work by the addition of a department of instruction very much like that of the Prospect Union. Though this is the first year the work has been very successful. Between thirty and forty courses in Latin and Greek, the modern languages, history and economics, mathematics, natural science and other branches have been given. Classes in elocution, singing and physical culture have also been organized. The instruction in these courses has been given for the most part by Harvard students. Twenty six men in all from the different departments...
Classes are held five evenings in the week at the rooms of the Social Union on Brattle street. One evening is given up to lectures, social or dramatic entertainments which are open to the public. This evening is much like the public Wednesday evening of the Prospect Union...
This department of the Social Union, which has been so successful this year, will be continued next winter. It is hoped that the number of classes may be greatly increased in the fall, and a number of students large enough to carry on the new courses may volunteer to teach...
...connected with the college have any opportunity, as matters now stand, of rightly appreciating the different influences which are at work upon the undergraduate mind, or of estimating their effects. The interests of the student not unnaturally seem to be confined to the various forms of athletic or social activity, with now the possible exception of debating, which is often supposed to be stimulated only by the prospect of contests with Yale...
...accusation against the students there is some plausible ground, but far from sufficient to justify its sweeping character. Beneath all the seemingly absorbing interest in athletics and social activity, there is a deep current of earnest, strenuous life in the college, the goal of which is attainment to educational ideals, in the very broadest sense in which these can be understood. It is this undercurrent which really determines the value of the undergraduate life and is significant of the tendencies in it which shall prevail. In its superficial aspects the life of the Harvard student is deceiving: those who would...