Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Until 1786 students at both Harvard and Yale, were ranked entirely according to social position. Rank lists of the classes were posted in the beginning of freshman year, and were eagerly awaited. Yale was the first to abolish the system and Harvard followed suit five years later. - Yale News...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - Mr. Barrett Wendell, in his recent account of social life at Harvard, offers what seems to me a wise and timely suggestion, namely, to found a university society, whose aim shall be to bring together more intimately, professor and student. I observed a comment on this same suggestion in one of the Boston papers of to-day, which seems to touch the matter closely. Now that we are a full-fledged university with that larger and broader freedom which attends such station, it is wise to merit this big title by a character equally...
Many people excuse their selfish worldly lives on the plea that such a life as is enjoined in the text is impossible in this age of ours; which, with its boasted civilization and culture, is an age of mental incertitude, social destraction and moral confusion. The daily excitement which prevails unfits the soul for meditation. If we could but be transferred to the age of Abraham, or David, or even Cotton Mather, it would be easy to live a sober and godly life. But now the lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh, and of vain glory...
...tendency of science and of society to-day toward the total disuse of liquor. He then said that in college the probable cause of indulgence in intoxicants was due, not to the fear of saying "no," as is popularly imagined, but to the supposed loss or sacrifice in a social way which would be incurred. He said that he could not speak so much for college life, but he could testify for all after life that no social pleasure could ever be hindered by the non use of liquors. A man who doesn't drink in college is like...
...Washington Gladden who preaches to us at Appleton Chapel to-morrow night, comes directly from Yale where he has been delivering a course of lectures on Social Economy. Dr. Gladden's name is so inseparably connected with the labor cause that to call attention to his work in that cause seems superfluous. He is a Williams graduate and spent the first part of his graduate life in North Adams, but six miles from Williamstown, as pastor of one of the oldest churches of that town Undoubtedly, it was the spirit of this great manufacturing centre which first called his attention...