Word: socials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evening the campus was gaily illuminated by Japanese lanterns strung from tree to tree, as on a Harvard class day evening, and a promenade concert was given by Reeves' American-Band. The social event of the evening was the reception and ball in Memorial Hall, which was cleared for dancing. Elaborate refreshments were also served the entire evening. The affair was very largely attended by college men and invited guests, among whom the famed fair sex of Providence and vicinity were largely represented...
...sense of injustice in them, and keep the freshmen at a respectful distance." Fortunately there is a different idea of the fit and beautiful prevalent at Harvard than at some places where, perhaps, vigilance committees have been found a valuable and essential factor in the dispositions of the social economy, or, when in default of a vigilance committee, the easier method has been employed of charging all faults upon their unfortunate guests...
...University Club, the idea of which originated some months ago, but for want of vigorous management the project did not come to a successful issue. The intention of the founders, we are told, is to establish a pleasant and elegant club-house where students and graduates can meet in social converse, and where they can find music, the periodicals, billiards, cafes and similar innocent delights to make college life in New Haven as agreeable and attractive as is possible under the circumstances. The plan seems to us so admirable and even practicable that we are tempted to suggest that...
...second year at Columbia, Roman Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and Comparative Jurisprudence (in all nine hours a week) are taken up. There two years embrace about the amount required for final honors in this subject at Harvard. In the third year at Columbia Diplomacy, Public and Private International Law, Social Science and Administrative Law (eleven hours a week) are pursued. At the conclusion of this course the degree of Doctor of Philosophy is granted. The whole course embraces thirty-one hours a week, divided up into the three years. This is about the equivalent of the last three years...
...experience and observation. The ferment into which this country was thrown by the recent advent of a disciple of the heresy of long hair from a certain effete despotism across the water, alone stands as a sufficient warning against the dangerous doctrine. Harvard's continued success (certainly in a social way) is to be traced to this small but important beginning of hers, and the supremacy that the college now holds in the matter of fashions is certainly due to it. If the revolutionary practice of wearing long hair had even once been admitted during its tender years, there...