Word: socialize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a growing suspicion among those who have studied customs and manners during the past four or five years that the phenomenon known to the newspapers as the Social Whirl is gradually coming to rely upon the services of lower classmen for its masculine support. In the Junior and Senior years there comes to many undergraduates an awakening to the value of evenings spent in College and a coincident distrust of the glittering allurements of the ball room. The consequent open spaces in the ranks of the stags are slowly being filled by members of the Freshman class...
Even when the value of social accomplishments is admitted for such specialized professions as the diplomatic service and investment banking, the inordinate amount of time spent in stereotyped rehearsals of these matters is only inefficiently reflected in an increased social effectiveness. If one seriously seeks to acquire a facility in the usages known as good from, there are quicker and more sure methods than an iterative attendance at eight o'clock dinners and prolonged sessions given over life dance, whose monotonous four-four rhythm, often known as "common time", is only seldom relieved by the equally hackneyed three-four...
...Hoover man is usually a recognized expert in his line before he qualifies for work in that line under Hoover. He is usually an expert with creative theories of his own, or enthusiasm for Hoover theories, besides technical knowledge. He is likely to be an idealist with a social aim, rather than a practitioner of skilled self-interest. Typical Hoover men are George Barr Baker, publicist; Archibald Wilkinson Shaw, commercial economist; Dr. Vernon Lyman Kellogg, zoölogist. The latter, permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, may be taken as the ideal Hoover...
...Erickson has been, during his years spent in the Balkans, missionary, social worker, government adviser, government representative, and director of the agricultural school. He was Albania's representative at the Paris Peace Conference, and has taken active interest in the reconstruction and uplift of the nation since the War. He was in the country in September when Ahmet Zogu, then president of the Albanian Republic, was made king, and finds in the change a wise step toward the advancement of the nation...
...Theory of Social Origins", Professor Porter, Sever...