Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students of the college of liberal arts, Boston University, held their first social of the current year at Jacob Sleeper Hall last evening. A large number of the students were present and the faculty was represented by Dean Huntington and Profs. Browne, Buck, Dorchester, Curry and Lindsay. The entertainment consisted of songs from Tennyson by Mr. L. B. Greenwood and Miss Conant, and a representation of Tennyson's "Dream of Fair Women," the parts being taken by Misses Teele, Root, Hoag, Gooding, Shinn, Clarke, Latham, Small and Thomas; Mr. Magee, '88, taking the part of the dreamer. After the entertainment...
...large number of Yale students will compete for the prize of $50 offered by Lippencott's Magazine for the best essay of at least 4000 words on "Social Life at Yale...
...Yale always plays her dropped men, why have not the dropped '89 players (who are undoubtedly better than most of the freshmen), been playing on the freshman team? Is it the fault of the freshman captain, or has our courtesy in regarding dropped men, as in all their social relations, still members of the class with which they entered, had the effect of making them consider it beneath their dignity to serve their college on a freshman team...
...resolution passed last week by the faculty to the effect that after the present college year the Junior Promenade could not be held unless within the first two weeks of the winter term, was published this morning; it has aroused considerable indignation. The cardinal virtue of this most notable social gathering of the year has been the relief it affords to a long and dreary session. It would be premature to predict at present that any definite action will be taken by the students...
Lippincott's Magazine has offered a prize of $50 for the best article on "Social life at Yale." Competition open only to Yale undergraduates...