Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should have for more scientific study of the effects of alcoholic drinks, and then a general dissemination of the knowledge gathered in this way. The question is primarily a social one and the average person should be shown how greatly to the advantage of society as a whole Prohibition...
...small colleges at Harvard developed along such social lines, there would be no improvement over the present system. It is not likely, however, that they would so develop. Our undergraduate body, heterogeneous in comparison with most American colleges, is homogeneous in comparison with Oxford, which has students from every walk of life, every English-speaking country and state, every race, and every color. English youths, by the time they go to college, are heartily sick of public school conformity, and go in for rather extreme individualism: but over here, the desire to be "regular" outlasts school, and oven college...
...should have resented being forced into a college mould, and detested the wire-pulling that would have been necessary in freshman year, to get in the "right college" for the last three years. For let no one imagine that all the sub-divided colleges will be equal in social attraction. Almost fatally the public-school men will gravitate to some, and the prep-school men to others: certain unfortunates will be wanted no where, unless they are segregated into colleges of their...
...more than twelve can well engage in conversation at table. Shall we be satisfied with social groups of a dozen within the subdivided college, or will members adopt the native custom of parties in the corn belt, and progress up and down the tables between courses...
...think of the larger aspects of the matter. And this protection is conceded them. Further than this, there is nothing specific which can be done to define the relations of the white man to the yellow. The progress of comity awaits a superstructure of fellowship to be built with social segregation as basis. It is none too good a foundation. The reluctance of Asia to relegate itself to cramped quarters for the sake of mere amity with a nation of abundant land, must commend itself somewhat to those who realize the fierceness of the Caucasian conquests of new worlds...