Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reference to the complaint that we so often hear,- that Harvard's social conditions interfere with her athletics, let me say that the Harvard undergraduate who captains a team or crew, who does his best, even if defeated,- is honored, and has won a prize that makes a social recognition absolutely paltry...
...Later German Romanticism, with special reference to its social and political aspects.- Arnim.- Brentano.- Kleist.- Uhland.- Hoffman.- Heine. Half course (second half year...
...President Eliot's book consists of miscellaneous addresses and magazine articles written during the past twenty-five years. The reason of their being mainly social and political-a fact which at first strikes the reader with surprise-is explained in the preface; it is merely because the educational addresses and papers are reserved for another volume. There are, however, in this volume a good many passages relating to education, and one entire essay discusses the question "wherein popular education has failed." What is striking about the book, coming from the President of the oldest American university, is that his field...
...addition to the interest which is sure to be aroused by addresses from such prominent graduates as Mr. Bancroft and Mr. Roosevelt, the business which is to be transacted is as important as has ever come up for consideration in the social and athletic side of Harvard life. The organization proposed, will, if ably conducted, find its field of usefulness constantly broadening, and this field is one which is the province of no organization now in existence. To hear this question discussed by the large and representative body who seem likely to attend will certainly be an event of importance...
...assembled to discuss a question of great moment to the human race. The social question is puzzling the minds of statesmen all over the world. I do not come here claiming to have found a solution for these problems, but to suggest a light that shall show the way out. Every where the growth of Christianity has been a steady progress toward freedom. The essential beauty of civilization is charity. Freedom is the essential thing of civilization. Now freedom has brought no more substantial result than the substitution of free labor for slave. Nevertheless the industrial system based upon freedom...