Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...country there is great need of public instruction fitted to perpetuate the spirit of American institutions. The spectacle of children of different races, creeds and social classes attending the same school, is too familiar to need notice, and the common school system of the United States stands acknowledged as one of the grandest achievements of civilization. Yet it seems in danger of being crowded out of existence by opposition from two sources, one positive in its antagonism, the other negative...
...large classes of people, strangely united in this instance, form the opposition. They act from different motives, in the one case social, in the other religious. They are the very wealthy class in every community and the Roman Catholic denomination...
...nationalities and sects have yielded to a certain extent in matters of peculiar customs and belief. If the church segregates its children from the rest of the community, if it causes them to regard this government as protestant and themselves as strangers in a strange land, if it keeps social classes from mingling where is most opportunity for mingling, it destroys one of the safeguards of the republic...
...Harvard Glee Club gave a concert in aid of the Cambridge Social Union last evening, in Lyceum Hall. The admission was 10 cents...
...clearly defined artistic result. In the "machinery" of the action, there must be nothing which shall be meaningless or contrary to the current of sympathies aroused by the play as a whole. The events must be managed in such a way as not to jar even upon the social traditions of the audience. Care must be taken to have the misfortunes happen to those characters which do not appeal as above to the spectators, or which are lightly sketched in the dialogue...