Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college or institution of equivalent grade. It is designed to test not only the student's knowledge of facts and events, but also his understanding of their relative meanings and his interpretations of their importance. The field covered in this contest includes current events of political, economic, and social significance...
...think the House Plan will make Careful Greeterism a subtler thing than ever before. Take me, for example, a Senior. I have fulfilled all my ambitions, academic and social. There is no one on whom I need to use the Chummy. But under the House plan even Seniors will be continually meeting professors. Useful levers to success, as the Chummy proved to be in the Freshman. Sophomore, and Junior years, need not be discarded. Variety and constant refurbishing: only these things can save Harvard from Keezerism--or friendliness. This tocsin is, of course, not for the herd. But, in Chaucer...
...final word. It is this: Nothing is so essential to social happiness in the Harvard Yard as a correctly graded repertoire of Careful Greetings...
...exercise of his profession, he is curiously without legal protection, or social position. According to the whim of the moment the man he interviews may paste him at the first question, or sneer, or smile. If the reporter develops as a result of this a cynical contempt for all the other estates, a perpetual grouch, an inferiority complex, it is not surprising...
Critic St. John Ervine in the New York World last week related that Bernard Shaw had once assured him that the characters of whom he wrote were interesting to him only as megaphones through which he himself might voice his social speculations; but since it is impossible to have much interest in ideas about human problems without having first an even larger interest in the human beings who are faced with them, Shaw's plays, among them Major Barbara, are interesting for their people rather than their propaganda. Before any writer can portray Rummy Mitchens, a Salvation Army derelict...