Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This society consists of thirty-six members, sixteen from each of the two highest classes and four from the sophomore class. All members remain active members until graduation. The objects of the club are purely social intercourse and entertainment. The members dine together once in every six weeks. No member of the A. D. can belong to any similar society. The club dates from 1865, but was merely a continuation of the Alpha Delta Phi, which existed until that time. In 1873 a thorough reorganization of the club took place. New rooms were elaborately yet tastefully fitted...
...SOCIETY.It was to be devoted to literary and social purposes. The class of '66 did not intend to hand the Pi Eta down to the junior class, but the desirability of doing so was proved by the great interest taken in the club. The society was formally recognized by the faculty...
...rosy as it has been painted. There is painful evidence that snobbishness was far more prevalent than it is now, and that is saying a good deal. One of the most remarkable customs of the early days of the college was that of arranging men in class according to social position. This must have occasioned many worthy but poor students considerable mortification and chagrin. A writer on the subject says: "The scholars were often enraged beyond bounds for their disappointment in their place; and it was some time before a class could settle down to an acquiescence in this allotment...
Almost every man, during his college course, finds himself a member of one or more of the societies in which Harvard abounds. Nearly all these societies, secret or otherwise, were founded for social purposes, and are carried on with this end in view. But there is one notable exception to this the society to which those only are admitted who have shown themselves of permanent ability in regard to scholarship throughout their college course. I refer...
...Library Hall, in which the faculty was out in full force, would be a compliment to any artist in the country. The fervent and long continued applause that greeted each selection was such as rarely attend an artistic performances here. His stay was made particularly pleasant by the social courtesies extended him. On the different evenings he was entertained by members of the Merma d Club, by the newly organized club of unmarried professors, instructors and fellows, and by the members of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. From here he went on Saturday to Elmira, Bath and Rome where...