Word: socials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...EDITORS OF THE HERALD: Dear Sirs - The late continued animadversions on my character are as uncalled for as your paper, and as unsatisfactory as my reports. My relations with collegiate persons are purely business, and I cannot afford to cultivate the social amenities in my intercourse with them. I sign my initials...
...interesting letter in yesterday's Advertiser "A. A. H." discusses the value of the Harvard Club of New York as a factor in social life of the metropolis. Great expectations are entertained of the coming banquet of the club. The club now contains about 270 members...
...that furnish advanced instruction. England, and all foreign countries in fact, are cited as examples of the truth of this, and as showing the good result of having few colleges. But those who talk in this way fail to take into consideration the vast difference in the state of social feeling of America and that of other countries. Here every man, no matter how poor, looks upon himself as having equal chances with his neighbor for social position or political honor. This is doubly impressed upon his mind by his life in public schools, and finally becomes a very part...
...George is a social lion in New York. It is said that he has decided to become a stock actor...
...staking any great hopes on any other amateur, such as Oscar Wilde even. So much for any claims Mr. Wilde may have upon us for any promise or any achievement of his own. Aside from these considerations, society justly claims and exercises the right of providing laws of social conduct for its members and of punishing infringements of these laws. Mr. Wilde has infringed these laws; and the public has passed and is executing judgment upon him in its own way; a way somewhat harsh and severe it must be admitted, and sometimes reprehensibly so, but on the whole entirely...