Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such and such passages," says the happy owner, and the borrower carries the book home, and forthwith it mingles with his own and is merged and lost. Such a thing even as the loan of a borrowed book is not unusual, though it ought to be regarded as a social crime. Who that prides himself on his books has not painful vacancies among them? Here it is the second volume of an otherwise complete edition of Tennyson-missing ! And there a "horrible blank" tells of some unvirtuous borrower were has decapitated a valuable set by carrying off volume number...
...Winkley introduces his article by calling attention to the important bearing of the dormitory system on the social life of the college and proceeds to give a "guide-book" description of some of the principal dormitories. In connection with the matter of the expense of living at Harvard Mr. Winkley says: "Harvard has often been called an expensive place, and not unjustly so, in comparison with other colleges, among the leading items of expense being room-rent. Few rooms rent for less than sixty dollars a year, and in the better class of buildings, like Matthews, Weld, or Holyoke...
...strange to an Englishman that so different a system can prevail in this country with any degree of success. It is true, however, that the possession of land in the district, which he seeks to represent, is of great value to the English candidate, so also is wealth and social position...
...there is no use multiplying instances. We have better foot-ball, base-ball, and other material than any college in the country,-and how little we accomplished with it ! Of course there are several influences to blame besides lack of coaching; such as proximity to a large city, high social standing not dependent on athletic attainments, and other influences that generate what is commonly lumped as "Harvard Indifference." But give us as good coaching in other branches of athletics as we now have in rowing, and in those branches too, we shall soon be supreme...
...said that Herbert Spencer's great work on Descriptive Sociology has been at last completed. The eight parts are in folio form, for convenience, and it aims to epitomize the past and present social life of the globe...