Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club is now in a very flourishing condition, and the prospects of improved work on the road and the path next year are brilliant. Throughout the winter and spring the club proposes to hold "smokers" or social meetings once a month, and just before the Christmas vacation the annual dinner, which was so great a success last year, is to take place...
...organization with a membership of eighteen men from the senior class has just been formed at Cornell under the name of the "Mermaid Club." Its objects are given out to be the promotion of social ability and general culture...
...without an examination. He is retained at the school six years. Add two years to our preparatory schools, and two to our college, and we have the English system." The italics are mine. Farther on is this passage. "Then, in aristocratic England a university man has great political and social advantages, which, in a democratic country like America, count for little...
...this school and college system, let me say-as I can without contradiction-the "public" or "grammar" schools of England, not twelve merely, but, large and small, more than 200, and the scholarships at the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, are the main popular or democratic safeguards of the social system of the country. They have been the means of enabling, for three hundred years, many sons of humble tradesmen, clerks and farmers to rise to the highest offices in church and state. not a few of England's Archbishops and Lord Chancellors have risen to their lofty positions through...
...last social meeting of the Bicycle Club it was voted to raise the price of membership to $3; it was also voted to appoint a committee to choose a cult uniform and club colors. Mr. T. J. Coolidge. '84, was elected director from the associate members. Messrs. Hawkins, '84, Draper, '85, Crocker, '85, Storer, '85, Fiske, '85, White, '85, Hobbs, '85, McArthur, '85, were elected as associate members. It was voted to have a club medal...