Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social columns of our local morning newspaper, I invariably read that, at Mrs. So-and-so's bridge party, there were six tables "in play...
...picture of what would happen to the nation if wage equality were granted: young women would not have to marry.* Another fighting male explained: "It is a bold young man who today proposes marriage to a woman teacher, because he knows he will have to suffer adverse financial and social changes...
...prime feature of the Harvard report was its proposal for modifying the social life of a university of "mammoth proportions" in a way calculated to foster "healthy social intercourse and stimulating interchange of ideas" for the individual. The proposal was this: to subdivide Harvard residentially into six colleges constituted on the English university plan ? six bodies of students, 250 to 300 strong, housed in more or less segregated groups of dormitories, eating in their own dining halls, responsible to their own deans. The assignment of separate faculties is not included in the plan. The advantages were not elaborated beyond...
...short, I found in the Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates a practice of taking and generously judging, each according to his merit as a man, which approaches closely to the ideal of social attitude and conduct, and I believe that the compact solidarity of the college is responsible for this whole-some condition. I am of opinion, therefore, that there exists a strong case for dividing the Harvard undergraduate body into compact and wieldy groups, and, by necessary implication, making academic residence, so far as possible, a condition of membership in a college or group...
...recent additions to dormitories have been grouped with the older buildings, they will perceive that under the far-seeing leadership of President Lowell the college dwellings are already physically adaptable to college groups. The trend of thought among the undergraduates, who are intimately in contact with the social conditions now prevailing, as shown by the report of the Student Committee, further encourages the hope and expectation that Harvard will soon progress to a stage where the advantages to the student, of a small college, can be enjoyed in full together with those of the large and cosmopolitan university