Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia College; now the perfected scheme for the ensuing year is open to examination. I confess that I regard it somewhat askance. It is a query whether or no a college gains by enlarging indefinitely its curriculum. The old American college course was and is well suited to our social conditions and needs, and any scheme which should entirely subvert it, I, at least, could not regard with a favorable eye. But there is another field of scholastic work little tilled thus far among us, where the widest facilities of research in every direction should be ready at hand, namely...
Cornell is endeavoring to obtain Wayne MacVeagh to deliver a series of lectures before the Social Science Club...
...Harvard Club of Chicago held a social reunion at the Pacific Thursday evening. About thirty were in attendance, and after the transaction of club business, the members gathered around a "punch bowl" in the hotel ordinary, sang songs, and discussed old college times. - [Tribune...
...elsewhere there is a startling lack of humility. Each man, and particularly each woman, feels called upon to assume a prominence in proportion to his own estimation of his powers; but this of course does away with some of the most necessary and most fundamental laws of our social system. For if you wish to talk, you must have some one to talk to; but here they all talk. If you wish for sympathy, you must have some one to sympathize with you; here they all wish for sympathy. If you wish to be loved, you must have some...
...Advertiser says very sensibly in regard to the Bowdoin hazing case: "Exactly why the relations of students to their faculties and to each other should not be placed on the ordinary basis of social decorum, enforced, when necessary, by the appropriate legal sanctions, it is difficult to see. Many old fashions are quaint and charming; this one certainly is not. The tone of the age is against this 'peculiar institution.' Overgrown classes, eager individual work in special lines, the advanced age compelled by high standards of qualification, largely relieve the individual student from his duty as guardian of class dignity...