Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Amherst.- Stewart L. Woodford, of New York, will be the Social Union orator for this year...
...state), and the interest he has always so kindly professed in the Club seemed doubled by the resolution evident in all to make the Art Club worthy of the name it bears. At his suggestion it was decided that the fortnightly meetings should be converzationi of an entirely social nature, at which Art in any one of its various branches should be discussed. This plan was most successfully carried out at the subsequent meeting, last Thursday, when Modern Pottery and Porcelain formed the subject of conversation, some very good specimens having been lent for the occasion...
...become accustomed to the inaccurate reports of our College matters in Boston papers, and have long since given up complaining about the "Harvard Gossip" furnished by the correspondent of the Saturday Evening Gazette; but when one reads, in the Transcript, an editorial devoted to proving that Harvard students are "social roughs," it is time that something was said in our defence...
...person disapproves of actions either on the stage or in the auditorium of a theatre, his proper course is to stay away and not utter complaints. As we have said, we do not agree with these radical views. In fact, we are obliged to confess that the "social roughs," as one correspondent of the Transcript terms these offensive undergraduates, can learn from these letters many instructive truths. A word to the wise, we hope, will be sufficient...
...story will point my moral. Buckeye was a native of Porkopolis, and belonged to one of the proudest of those old families who boast that they have been pork-packers since the century began. Now, Buckeye, with his wealth and connections, might have taken a first place in the social world at Neophogen, and afterwards in the great world. But the foolish fellow threw away his chances. To use rather a vulgar phrase, he never took account of stock; and, when he might have had the best, he was quite as likely, through sheer ignorance, to choose the worst...