Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Work is the foundation of happiness. The idler may possess wealth, social position, and all that would seem to make life happy, but nothing can fill the void made by the absence of work. If, however, a man depends, as is most often the case, on his own ability to make his way in the world, success can only come from hard work. Spencer well says, "The first requisite for success in life is to be a good animal." Sound health is indispensable to activity, either of the body or of the mind, but it must be remembered that eternal...
...Royce first gives an outline of the earlier history of the state, and then tells of the American as its conqueror, and how his conquest was completed and supplemented in the ensuing struggle for good government and order. The last two chapters treat of the social evolution in San Francisco and the history of California's land troubles and politics. The whole book is exceedingly interesting and entertaining, and is printed in neat form. Especially noticeable to Harvard men is the pleasant way in which the logical mind of the author has stamped its imprint throughout the book...
Among our college organizations one has this year appeared which gives promise of a long career of usefulness. The Classical Club grew out of a desire on the part of the students in the more advanced courses of the Classical Department, for a more intimate, social and intellectual relationship than was to be found in the work of the class-room, or in the intercourse of daily life. The students were vigorously seconded by the instructors of the department, to whose co-operation much of the present success of the society...
...graduate students in Philology, and of students who, having taken second year honors in Classics, or having entered on advanced standing from some other college, are devoting their main attention to classical work. Honorary members may occasionally be elected. The objects of the society are two-fold: to promote social intercourse between the instructors and the students of the Classical Department, and to encourage original work among the student members. The club holds biweekly meetings, alternately at the rooms of an instructor and of a student. The meetings held with the instructors are devoted to social intercourse, and form...
...Washington Gladden, the well known writer on social problems and distinguished preacher, is to give an address in Appleton Chapel to the students on Sunday evening...