Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pink carnations, maidenhair ferns, golden candlesticks, 50 empty chairs were seen in the state dining salon of the White House. Soon, and promptly, the chairs were occupied, for the President and Mrs. Coolidge had opened the official Washington social season with the annual Cabinet dinner. Among those present were Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, the Cabinet members and their wives, Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, and a few favored guests from Washington, New York, Boston, such as Bruce Barton, advertising man, writer of books on the Bible and Jesus; Dr. Vernon L. Kellogg, famed zoologist; Mortimer L. Schiff, potent Manhattan...
...their nails and stamped their feet. Again they had been done in by Condé* Nast, sleek publisher of Vogue. Especially must it have pained Vogue's glossy rival, Harper's Bazar (a Hearst product), to learn that Mr. Nast, than whose technique for commingling business with social activities nothing smoother was ever evolved, was to be the first lecturer in a course on present-day fashions in the fine arts department of New York University, a course sponsored by Manhattan society matrons including Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Reginald de Koven, Mrs. Murray Crane...
Attacking a different problem, Woodrow Wilson once said, "these boys are bound together in all their social relationships but have no intellectual ties . . . the ties of fellowship, the ties of membership, the center of it all should be an intellectual thing." This is the fundamental fault in most intercollege relationships. They are fraternal in the emotional sense, or athletic or sentimental, but seldom based on the community of the mind. Here lies the importance of intersectional debating, the Student Federation, and other fundamentally intellectual relationships in the collegiate world...
...would lay particular stress upon the scientific nature of the experiments now under way as differentiating the new institutions from the old. What shapply marks off scientific experiment in any social science from the ordinary efforts of groups is the control of the conditions under which the experiment is conducted. For control we must have adequate funds trained observers, and accurate recording. All these terms are met in the experiments now under way; and for the first time we may expect to be in possession of results upon the given causes of which we may place reliability...
...think their example will be followed. But I have also brought it to your attention because I think it is one way of introducing the element of seriousness into American education which will cause. American students to give more attention to the great problems of political, social and religious life which confront us today. For any careful observer must admit that there is taking place before our very eyes a disintegration of standards which must give great concern unless we know the direction in which we are moving and the foundations which we are laying...