Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undoubtedly many see in college merely a pleasant round of social and sporting events to the exclusion of learning but the suggested cures themselves show taints of evil. Now that the cry is against undergraduate tendency to specialization, Mr. Wells will not find unanimous applause for the graduate school system he would build in its stead. To end intercollegiate athletics would certainly keep the serious as well as the light-minded from college. A school can suffer from an overdose of learning just as surely as from too highly emphasized athletics. There is more than one way to kill either...
What the suggested "cures" ignore is that college is not just a nursery of learning or an athletic playground or a social center. It is all of these, as many presidents try to prove, yearly, in their freshman addresses. The successes of college life are achieved by those who have grasped the fact had balanced their lives accordingly. school can force its men to coordinate the phases entirely; there is an ultimate cure, dependent on college and student alike, which will consist in an even balance and a healthy attitude...
...attitude of imperial New York, the most influential single state, may yet restore the wet cause to the social register of politics," whose one criterion is vote-getting. Indced, Dr. Seward's exodus from the preliminaries is a portent of the outcome. His adherents in New York are slipping over toward the wet side of the deek. The Prohibition party, as an institution, has already sunk, below the voting strength legally, necessary to maintain itself a political entity. Already, the Democratic party has hinted at an ardent wet, Governor Ritohic of Maryland, as its 1928 candidate for President...
...erect if from a bedroom 'hung with soft draperies and filled with cushioned chairs' to a barren room with only a couch for a bed and books for adornment. It was surprising that the World did not know that our family has never gone deeply into the social whirl. When we first came to Washington, I announced that I would continue to do my own cooking (TIME, April 6, 1925), a resolution to which I have not entirely adhered. Furthermore, it is only natural that our daughter Edna should crave to teach. Her uncle, Ray Lyman Wilbur, famed...
...club shall take as a member any undergraduate from the class of 1918 or subsequent classes who has accepted election before the Friday following the fourth Monday after the opening of college in his Sophomore year to any other social club or society which takes in less than 100 members from a college class. The Advisory Committee shall have power to determine what organizations come within the meaning of this rule...