Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weeks, and the assiduous application necessary for the mid-year examinations render it difficult for all members of the college. As a reslt from these unpleasant features we naturally look forward to the Easter recess as a period of relaxation from our duties, and a time of social enjoyment at home. As we are about to leave we cannot help but think of the heroic conduct and self-denial of those men on the various athletic teams who remain in training at Cambridge rather than invalidate whatever chances they may have of excelling in their respective branches. That the University...
...editorial in the last number of the Monthly, the writer takes the ground that, owing to the fact that Harvard is situated near Boston, and that the students are thus afforded unusual social advantages, it follows that at Harvard the social interests must of necessity take precedence of athletics. While we grant the writer's premises, we cannot accept his conclusion. It is true that Harvard students are afforded social advantages which possibly no other college possesses. The advantage of having Boston's society within the reach of those who have the means to enjoy it, is a piece...
...students of the fine arts this subject will be of great interest. Mr. Lowell contributes a poem, "Turner's Old Temeraire." An article on Lasalle, the Socialist, by D. O. Kellogg, is an interesting description of the life of the man who was at the head of the German Social Democratic Party. The poem, "To my Infant Son," which Mr. Arlo Bates was to have read at the recent Authors' Reading in Sanders Theatre, is published in this number. "The Marriage Celebration in the United States" is a companion paper to "The Marriage Celebration in the Colonies" of the March...
Among the chief social events which occur to break the monotony of the dull winter are the monthly receptions given in Dwight Hall by President and Mrs. Dwight. They are largely attended by the professors and the members of the different departments of the university, and do much to promote acquaintance and a feeling of friendship between the students and instructors, thus removing one of the commonest objections to university life...
...Early Spring," a poem by Bliss Carman, follows and editorial maintaining that by the nature of things at Harvard, athletics must of necessity give first place to social pleasures, closes the number...