Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most brilliant and successful year for this well known Harvard society, a few words concerning it would not be without interest especially to those who are as yet unacquainted with our college institutions. The Union was formed in 1880. Its object was the discussion of the political and social questions of the day. There was at this time in the college curriculum a course essentially devoted to this same purpose, but the Faculty, thinking that its place was now filled, withdrew it from the electives. So great, however, was the interest aroused in Parliamentary matters, it was thought best last...
...social celebrations of Monday night were many and noisy. '88 exhibits unmistakable signs of being here...
...agitation among scholars and students is aimed. To produce a change and provoke a revolution that will admit into our colleges and schools the proper curriculum for inculcating a liberal education is the sole purpose of the present lengthened discussion. Every advance in science and philology, every newly arising social or political requirement, every increase in commercial and industrial extension, in short, every new demand upon the energy and thought of educated men will only increase and broaden this idea of education. It is compulsory on us, the educated men of the succeeding generation, to prepare ourselves for life...
...offer explanations to their assailants on account of this very secrecy. The objection to class societies that they tend to produce too great exclusiveness, and to magnify class distinctions, is met by the reply that class feeling is a good thing, and that the experiment of university societies for social purposes failed at Yale. It is sometimes claimed that the senior societies govern the college press. The fact that on the editorial boards of all the papers except the Yale Literary Magazine, the non-society men greatly outnumber the society men, efficiently disproves this. The charge of favoritism, the writer...
...study is liberal and literalizing," he writes, "it is the modern study of history. Philology and polite literature arrogate the title of the humanities;' but what study can so justly claim that honorable title as the study which deals with the actual experience on this earth of social and progressive...