Word: socializes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This, however, is not all. Herr Mann wishes to picture modern life as well as life in general. Lengthy talks and debates upon contemporary social and philosophic problems of the day immediately before the war are carried on by various patients, in particular the Italian humanitarian, Ludovico Settembrini, the clever Jesuit, Naptha, and the aristocratic Pieter Peeperkorn. These philosophisings may be realistic in that they are mediocre but certainly they are mediocre but certainly they are tiresome reading...
...femininity, prided itself forty years ago on being a family college with a distinctive home atmosphere is evident from an article in the "Harvard Herald" of May 4, 1883. In that issue appears a dispatch, apparently from the "Herald's" Poughkeepsie correspondent, on outlining the delights and drawbacks of social life at the feminine academy on the Hudson...
...fashion for the journals of the larger masculine universities to run special dispatches from their dainty neighbors, but in the Elegant Eighties the editors decided that news was scarce, and after all it was spring, and gave out bulletins calculated to cheer the hearts of their readers. The social revelation of Vassar follows...
...There is not much formality about the social life at Vassar, as all the students live in one building. There is always considerable fun and enjoyment in the Senior class, as a certain corridor is their exclusive property. They have a class parlor, also sacred to Seniors, which is used as a room for both business and social meetings and is finely furnished...
...parlor. The nature of the girls determines whether or not the room is really for study. Perhaps this system is conductive to eliques, but it afferds a good chance to learn human nature, and to adapt one's self to circumstances. Then their is the chapter life, neither very social nor very interesting, the spreads, much fun but discouraged by the faculty and class and club life, whose interest varies with different classes...