Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more than the corridor of many of the city hotels. This plan it is said will obviate the present tendency to the formation of cliques. This is far from assured. These so-called cliques are no more or less groups of men formed by commonality of taste or social distinction. To attempt by the formation of a common meeting place for the whole university to break down such relations simply argues a want of insight into the causes of these relations. There now exist many societies which, we venture to say, cover almost every need of Harvard social life...
...typographical error in a recent issue made the date at which Yale abolished ranking on the social scale 1786 instead...
...continual sending in of communications in regard to the proposed University Club is a good sign in itself. It shows that, if, as some writers claim, there are defects in Harvard's social institutions, the students have at last thought the matter over with care, and have original thoughts to express whenever the question is agitated. The question is one with many bearings. There is a great deal to be said on both sides, and no sensible conclusion can be arrived at without the fullest discussion. We would like thoughtful opinions from all the different standpoints of college life, from...
...meeting representatives of other colleges, although of course such opportunities are comparatively few and far between. Now it seems to us that college men of literary taste would take great pleasure in making the acquaintance of their fellow-editors in other colleges. Why should not an association, organized for social as well as journalistic purposes, be a most successful instrument for bringing together men of similar tastes in friendly intercourse? We see no reason why the proposed intercollegiate press association should not be a great success. We hope that the convention of editors will take due care to form...
...which they may have happened to fall. The result is that they tail to receive the benefit of the broad and cosmopolitan influence that association with men of various types and coming from all points of the country must expect. A university club would obviate this, and besides affording social enjoyments, it would bring both students and instructors into close relations, and would make them feel that they were one body united by common interests and aims and under one "alma mater...