Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many academic gentlemen have, that an instructor, raised aloof on his daïs, has little influence on the ethical conceptions of his students. He had developed a conception of human conduct which asserted "the supreme importance of the ethical factor in all the relations of life -personal, social, national and international-apart from any theological or metaphysical consideration." But his class duties hampered him in the propagation of this ideal. So with rather unprofessorial audacity he abandoned his chair, went to Manhattan and organized his first Ethical Cultural Society...
...Haven, Conn., May 22.--Yale must find an element of social solidarity to replace that which was lost when required chapel was abolished, according to the Yale Alumni Weekly. Editorially it suggests remedies to meet the situation, declaring that Harvard's solution of small college units, like those at Oxford and Cambridge, will not do. The Weekly also says that the Yale secret society system, which alone remains of elements of the Yale social life, is unequal to the demands of the present situation. The Weekly advances no constructive remedy, but says, in summing up the existing condition...
...class solidarity is going, something ought to be done to get it back. The fact that chapel now is gone is an added reason why this should be looked into. For chapel at least brought the upper-class undergraduates together and assembled the 850 freshmen as a social group...
...special interest as the second of a series. For this essay is but a triad of anecdotes tending to prove the thesis of its predecessor. In a word, the new professor in a provincial college receives few invitations to dinner and those he does receive lead to utter social failures. He finds the president a blusterer. When he forsakes gown to dine with town, he finds the attitude of his hosts vulgarly condescending; while dinner with a colleague proves, to say the least leaden. These, evidently, are the graphic examples to which "A Young Man Bent on Entering the Professoriat...
This summary is evidence that labor has thrown no fright into the capitalists of the United States. This is undoubtedly well. If labor bas ends to attain, the less social scission provoked, the better. But there are these to whom a siesta of American labor agitation would not seem so salutary as it does no Mr. Gary. They are the people to whom the Passable strike is a revelation They are concerned in Mr. Gary's later and more controversial dicta...