Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...practice of rooming alone in college seems to be coming more and more into favor; perhaps on the principle of social science, that the more highly cultivated people become, the more points of difference they find in their characters and tastes...
...curious strangers that will throng it at Commencement. If every student, on leaving College, remembers the Memorial Hall as the place where some of his most enduring college friendships were formed and fostered; if he connects it in his mind with four years of genial intercourse around a social board, our patriot alumni are more truly honored in the fond memory of every graduate, than when their names are graven on marble tablets, in letters of lasting gold...
...more necessary for men designed for certain callings." It quotes Mr. Agassiz's advice to young men professing to be naturalists, namely, to pass first through college, giving "full scope to literary studies, whether in ancient or modern tongues, to moral and intellectual philosophy, to the moral and social history of mankind, and to pure mathematics." This report is recommended to the attention of any who desire to go back of the outward form, and understand the principles that are at work in making Harvard University what...
...discussed by our newspapers, demanding, as it does, a large share of the public attention, and in nearly every part of the country the subject of legislative enactments, although hitherto it has been alluded to but casually in the College press, deserves the thought of those undergraduates interested in social and moral problems, who expect hereafter to engage in affairs and deal with the tangled knots of reform. Delicate to handle it undoubtedly is, like everything that has to do with the practice or views of a man's associates. Moreover, the most earnest efforts are often misconstrued by rigid...
...students would of course resort thither, but many who were not absolutely poor would prefer to board there. Among students it is not well to have poverty the ground of association. Secondly, for hasty meals in a hot, crowded, vulgar room, under circumstances which make polite observances difficult and social enjoyment impossible, would be substituted a decent and comfortable service which would promote good manners and good fellowship. Thirdly, the moral effect of living in that superb Hall could not but be good. It is by far the grandest college hall in the world, and there are very few rooms...